My only advice is that I do understand where you're coming from, but at some point, the disparate parts of the course start to "click" and come together on their own once you're attempting different drawings. I'd say do something like Inktober and give yourself challenges to work against and you'll start to see how those pieces all fit together.

I decided to jump in and try level 2 on this one. So I know I have a few issues with this: 1. I used scrap paper so there is a horizontal artifact going behind the squares, please disregard 2. There are only 9 swatches (I lost two of the squares and decided to continue anyway) 3. Some of the unevenness is more apparent after scanning :( (I tried taking multiple pictures but the lighting here isn't great, even outside atm, so I decided to scan it instead) 4. I got a bit heavy handed with the third to last one, so it is darker than it should be. I could have switched with the next one and pretended I did it right, but that would be dishonest lol. This was pretty difficult for me. I tried a few before this and couldn't quite scale things smoothly. This was the best I'd done so far so I decided to submit it. I ended up using an approach of doing subsequent passes to try and get consistent scaling... i.e. for #7 on the chart, I'd use seven passes over the square with the pencil. It's tedious, but gave me a much better result than just eyeing it. May not be practical in the long run, but it gave me the best result at the moment.

Tagging @Proko in this since it's an administrative issue

I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm working on the Drawing Basics course here as a main priority, but have dabbled with a few other smaller courses at Proko when I didn't have any other assignments for the fundamentals course. Recently I started working through the self-study syllabus created by Kristian Nee, which has a thorough (multi-year!) course plan for self study. So far I've found it really helpful! I've attached the full syllabus (it's a super long image file) in case you want to use it also. (Credit: Kristian Nee)

In terms of background on this, I'm working through the drawing fundamental course here on Proko, but also going through Kristian Nee's self-study syllabus for drawing, which begins with figure drawing. I've been working on breaking down figures into forms and trying to get proportions correct (it's a big weakness for me at the moment). I also really enjoy pen and ink drawings, so I was working on hatching with pen afterward since this was just a spur-of-the-moment practice drawing anyway.

This is a really helpful approach, thanks Stan!

Good work here! I like how you clearly put thought into designing your shadow shapes and have your hatching follow the contour of the form. I would focus on making sure your figures are balanced. Pay attention to where the center of gravity is with relation to the feet, right now it looks like your subject might fall backwards. Here is a video on balance that I found helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLBhO-4YEww&t=0s I also think you can work on the neck and shoulders. Notice how the neck curves up into the head. I'd also pay attention to the foreshortening on the arm on the left, right now it just looks a little long. Overall, good work! keep it up :)

Here's the original reference photo I used. Original source was: https://gobreck.com/trip-ideas/other-outdoor/golf-in-breckenridge