Is It 1 lesson a week?

Here's a sample of what I'm starting from gesture-wise. I learned gesture from Stan's Figure Drawing Fundamentals course a few years back by this point. I've been doing 20 -- 30 second poses and 20 -- 1 minute poses every day for the last three months. Consider these two pictures my 'before' this course. I hope to learn and improve a lot learning and applying the lessons from this course!

I was finally able to get through all of the extra assignments for week 1 color photos. Instead of using the color picker I had to paint a color swatch over the reference and tried to match color that way. The tennis balls with their greenish-yellow coloring gave me the most trouble. Is it better to commit and spend more time painting a study with incorrect colors or to spend time picking the correct colors? I assume better color picking with come with time but at this early stage I'm not sure what I should be spending more time on, color picking or replicating the reference?

My first three attempts for the first week's assignments. I used the color picker for these after my first two aborted attempts where all of my values where too bright. All took around an hour with Clip Studio Paint using Gouache.

Draw-a-box has a discord already if you want to join that. It’s available on their web page above the log-in button along with the other social media links. If you’re planning on creating your own discord you should probably make a post in Art Lounge when you do.

I’ve been trying to get back into drawing in notebooks after picking up Drawabox again and found that what helped me best was doing reference mashing. After collecting a bunch of references of poses and characters that interest me I’d sit down and draw two of them for reference/practice. Then I’ll take those two pictures and try and merge them taking elements from both. It’s helped me get back to drawing outside of just exercises and warm-ups for the last two weeks.

I found myself making many of the errors that Stan talked about in his gesture videos before reading a suggestion by another user on the forums who mentioned skipping the timer and focusing on line economy. You could try re-watching Stan’s videos and then taking a pose and doing the bare minimum for lines. Circle for the head, single lines for the limbs, and then only a few lines for the important parts of the torso. Draw slowly and focus on making solid/flowing CSI lines. Try that for a few pages or sessions and then increase your amount of lines. Circle for the head, a line or two for the neck if needed, two strokes for each limb, and then more lines for the torso but still focusing on flow and staying away from only contour. Also, don’t be afraid of exaggerating the pose which is something I struggled with at first. Those are some things that have helped me recently.

There’s something about the facial expression that I can’t put my finger on. It’s like he’s more bored or disinterested than anything else. Seems out of place while he’s being attacking and the log bridge has collapsed beneath him. Otherwise, very good work!

My first thought on this was to put cross contours on an object you’re familiar with and then do a rotation with it so you’d draw it at several angles as you rotate it toward your view. I found an article on Love Life Drawing on this topic that includes that. https://www.lovelifedrawing.com/powerful-exercises-in-foreshortening/ I hope this is what you’re looking for and it helps you out.