This thing looks like it "flew beyond the sun before it was time"

you've done a great job with creating a the feeling that this figure has mass and form. Think of my suggestions as minor tweaks. Balance of the figure seems off. Like he could fall over frontwards. Draw a vertical line over your reference figure starting from the back heal of his lead foot strieght up and you'll see it goes straight through the center of his head. This is where his center of gravity is, most of his weight is on the lead foot, but some of it is on the back. But you can almost see him shifting= his weight like he's about to stand on one foot. About his back leg, When I talk about this we're using his Knee as a landmark. Ideally you want to learn to take measurements visually but I'm sure its fine for now if you find other ways to measure distance. Measure the distance from his pelvic area to his knee and from his elbow to his knee. You'll start to see that in the reference picture his knee is facing the camera more than its being portrayed in your drawing. Also the area from this knee to foot needs some adjustment after fixing the top half of the leg/knee When figuring out proportions there are different ways to measure things, one way is to look at the negative space as shapes and try to capture those shapes in your figure drawing. If you do this you'll notice that in the reference photo the guy's lead arm is closer to his head then your drawing. Same with his back or "left" arm, it's also closer to his head in the reference photo. To match these adjustments you should notice that the left pectoral muscle a bit smaller in the reference photo as well. You did really well with the shape of the head and the arms, particularly the lead arm. Your figure has a life to it. You have grasped the nature of mannequinization over all you have a lot to be proud of. A bit of refinement in the area of proportion(measuring) and foreshortening would be helpful. So id say don't quit mannequinization just yet, I mean unless you feel like you want to move on. If you do just plan on coming back to it at some point. There are other ways to work on proportion and foreshortening but doing that during mannequinization will give you satisfying results. Simplifying during mannequinization would be to not draw eyes nose mouth hair fingers toes clothes shading muscles. you don't do any of that. so you're good. What you want right now is as many reference lines, contour lines, and measurement lines. anything that aids you in learning your proportions and foreshortening so well it becomes intuitive. Once you've gotten that down to you're satisfaction then simplifying would be to not have those reference lines for measurement and contours , i mean unless they happen to be part of your finished image.

Hey George, I think you may benefit from doing "draw overs" . Watch the 2 longer videos and pause before Stan starts drawing. Go through the process he describes in the First video in this section. Then do a comparison with his results and yours. Draw over your attempt in a different color copying the differences that you see from Stan's attempt. Ask yourself why he did it that way and analyze even small differences. As he describes it does not have to be exact . For me this is process really helping me see things a differently. I hope Hope this helps.

Looks beautiful, now try it fast and fearless!

I hope this painting is of her hunting for food to feed her, her clan and their pet dinosaurs