What would be the next steps to do? How long do you think someone needs to get better at gesture and what should be the next step to learn? Do you also have a 2nd course what to do after that? Greetings

This was such a good course for me to do at this time. The timing was excellent. Both approaches speak to me and in particular the second approach I find to be critical to developing a more complete thought process when studying and when inventing. If I combine them with what I learned from Mike Mattesi and Drawing with Force, I get a third approach that unifies them all by focusing on function of the pose. I am particularly appreciative of the shape based approach for it's ability to be more character driven, allowing us to modify what we understand about a piece of reference. In this crit video, when you discussed the pros of sticking with the given perspective on the first pass of modifying the pose to avoid introducing new problems to solve while you're inventing. I can really see how that just increases the opportunity to confuse the objectives, and create more headaches while working. I want to acknowledge your excellent ability to clearly explain what you are doing as you are doing it (I know there are cuts and edits). There is a lot of value to see it done IRT as opposed to a voice over or narration that may end up with digressions that don't serve the lesson. Here are some mostly legible notes from the video. The first pose top left, was invented as you were talking through the first crit.

Thank you, Michael, for addressing the foreshortening issues I faced for the modified body types. I will keep in mind your advice on designing them in a better way.