I'm thinking a lot about this too! Because I have drafted a sort of progress plan for my art journey and I feel like in the pace I'm moving I will not be able to do what I actually want to do before three years down the line! I do love the fact that the Drawing Basics is so huge though. I learn so much from it that I didn't even learn studying art and design in "real' schools before... It's crazy! It reminds me of this huge book that I'm reading and how intimidating the size can look. It is actually just three separate novels in one binding but I think just the size of it can be so overwhelming to some people :D I just focus on the fact that it's three separate novels and stop thinking about how much time it's going to take me. I actually also had almost a year long break from reading it. I studied a bit about Agile methodology recently and I found a few things that can be helpful for various aspects of life and that is to plan your activities in projects (sprints). Say you feel it's important to study from Loomis now, then you can plan you 'sprint' to for example 3-4 weeks where you only do that and put the Drawing Basics course to the side. The sprint length should be as long as you feel you need to level up on Loomis. I'm not being as strict about it as that, but I did actually just start a bit on the anatomy course just to get that ball rolling slowly, but my main focus is Drawing Basics. (In additions to everything else I have to do in life... :D) It's annoying that there's just too much to do and too little time...

Great start! I think you managed to find some structure there so it’s not all blob!

I think it's ok that you spend longer time now in the beginning, as long as you focus on the rhythms and not get tempted to work on details. (The lesson says at least 5 minutes.) I think your drawings are good as you focus on the larger shapes. So I'd say take the time you need to internalise the rhythms that we are showed in the lesson (or find your own). I think you're doing great. Maybe one thing you can try to do is making more confident lines and vary the strokes between straight lines and curves? I know it's a lot to think about at once, but just keep going!

Oh, that's a fun exercise! Nice one!

Good effort! To my eyes it looks like you did the measurements well. Also well done for sticking with simple straight lines!

Wow, such a big variety of approaches here! Cool!

Wow, really well done! I like how you have managed to vary the line weight in the first one in order to be appropriate for each part you are drawing. And also you managed to keep the lines very quick and rough on the third one whilst keeping the structure of the figure. The other two are also really good. You captured the quality of the originals.

Haha, these are great and made me laugh!! I think you got the hang of simplifying into shapes. I'm just getting started on this task now... It's tricky to stay with flat shapes and not make them 3D I think...