Hi Alexander, If learning to draw the human figure is a goal of yours, then yes, you should continue to do exercises like this one! Doing things like tracings studies, etc. of the anatomy is intended to give yourself a functional understanding of the human body's forms. Your drawing looks like you are at least having some intuitive understanding of these forms, your contour lines are helping to push the '3-d-ness' of the muscles, which is great. I think something that might help you be more directed in your studying of the human figure is to simplify the muscles into a few easily identifiable groups, as I've done over your tracing here. It is a key skill in drawing and studying to be able to focus on the fundamental big shapes/forms of a subject. This is true no matter what you are drawing, you always want to be thinking big > small. I applied this same kind of thinking over an awesome David Finch drawing . Even though David's drawing has all this cool stuff going on, at its core it's a sequence of the big anatomical forms. Thinking about these muscles as big shapes/forms will help us study and simplify the variations in anatomy across different body types as well. Remember that all of this stuff takes time and practice. You're not going to 'get' the anatomy after one tracing. It takes many many directed efforts to really ingrain this stuff, but it's not magic and you will get better at it, and understand more as you practice it more. Just be sure that your mind is always present and studying, not copying! Hope this helps some and keep up the excellent work!