Looking for feedback on some landmark practices I have done. FYI...I am finding that as I progress through the lessons, each helps me understand the earlier ones better. So I'm seeing progress with gesture by having practiced landmarks! Anyway, feedback appreciated.

Wow! I'm a not so new nubie and think your drawings are way better than anything I could do! In my opinion, choose the tool you like, try other things as you go. I started with just a handful of graphite pencils. I later got 3 charcoal (hard, med, soft) pencils. I switch often depending on paper or what I am doing. I don't think it matters. Just keep drawing!

This shit is impossible....

Spent some time analyzing reference photo to determine landmarks and wanted some feedback. Even in a clear reference like this, I'm having trouble figuring out where the scapulas are, triangular expansion, the teres major muscle, iliac crest, PSIS, Sacrum are. Anything annotated here that is wildly off where it should be? Stepping back, is this a useful thing to do, or do people recommend that you just jump straight into gesture plus landmarks?

Here's a few different animals from shapes. The tiger I used really boxy shapes, a mixture on the giraffe and got a little more fluid/rounded with the birds. Feedback welcomed! thx.

Hi All, I've been doing a lot of gesture and beans lately and even combined the two. I'll do a 30 second gesture and follow up with a quick bean. Here are a page of beans (one of several that I have done) and a few samples of gesture with bean. Look forward to your feedback. Thanks.

Hi all here are some gesture samples. Most are 2-3 minutes, but truth be told, I sometimes stop the clock if I'm struggling, so a few may be more like 4-5 minutes. Also, on some, after the fact, I traced over lines to make them darker. On the images, where I added "Alone" or "With Video" labels, the labels indicate whether I did the drawing on my own (which is always what I try first) or with the video after watching it then playing the section again and drawing along. I do have some scratchy lines, but I also see that as I keep on working, I think I'm getting less scratchy. Feedback welcomed!

Hey Andrea, To begin with, 45 seconds is too short of time to get a good gesture drawing. To do it that fast is very advanced. You need to understand what gesture is and take time practicing it. You should take as much time as you need to really understand it. I took some of your drawings and did a quick draw over to show how your gestures should look. I hope this is helpful :)

For Step 1, Finding out what you enjoy drawing is more important than learning fundamentals. Right now I think the biggest thing you need to do is find the fun and enjoyment in drawing. If you don't have any fun drawing at level 0, the road ahead is just going to be worse. When I was younger, I started off trying to copy my favorite anime or videogame characters just to get a feel of how drawing works. Even if you wanted to trace stuff for fun, that's fine too (I just personally never found that challenging enough to be fun).

Hi Phoenixx...I'm relatively new to drawing as well. In addition to Proko fundamental videos, I found the Drawing Database (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDrawingDatabaseMarcLeoneNKUsota/videos) by Marc Leone really helpful. He has a fundamentals playlist that goes through shapes, form, shading and basic perspective. Its all free too! Watch what you want, skip what you don't, but most importantly, draw, draw with the videos too. I attached a 3pt perspective draw along I did from one of his videos. I started digitally too because I bought a tablet to fill in for whiteboarding once my office went remote. In the long run, I have switched to paper and pencil because I found learning on the tablet difficult...hard to match shading techniques, found myself going deep in all the functionality of the software rather than just drawing (or as an excuse to not draw)...so finally switched to good ole paper and pencil. Have fun, and I look forward to seeing some work!