I don't know if it is a recommended approach or not, but I've been doing the same. I find it useful for two reasons: 1) Helps me remember the names of these boney landmarks, as I've been annotating with the full name, and 2) practicing seeing the landmarks helps me see them faster, more, etc. I find the scapula hard too. I think I would have put them in pretty much the same place you did :)

Hi @Andrea M. Nice work! I think you would appreciate reading this critque that I gave another student https://www.proko.com/profile/thosakwe/activity (first post). I attached a paintover where I applied what I wrote in that critique to one of your drawings. TIMING I like to keep the timer mark as a sharp deadline. It helps me move on, and avoid getting lost in detail. But sometimes I give a pose a 2nd attempt without a timer, to analyze it. Giving yourself time to analyze is not a bad thing, I think it's good, but in my experience I find the best ratio to be “a bunch of timed ones : one analyzed” rather than the opposite. I think you´ll learn faster with this approach: "Instead of doing high quality drawings until you can do them in two minutes, do two minute drawings until they reach a high quality." I hope this was helpful :) P.S. I like to share these practice tips with people taking the Figure Drawing Course. Hopefully they can be of some help to you too: "-SOME PRACTICE TIPS: How you practice is as important, or even more important than what you practice. Here are some things that helped me improve faster: STAN´S EXAMPLES For me it was invaluable to look at Stan´s example drawings, following this routine 1. Try to draw the pose myself before looking at Stan´s example 2. Look at Stan and copy his drawing 3. Try to draw like Stan did, without looking at his example I did this over and over, varying up with other poses I found on the internet, trying to bring with me the habits I learned from Stan. DELIBERATE PRACTICE Another thing that was important for me was to be on the look out for things to improve. Improving was simply a long chain of - Doing a mistake - Finding the mistake - Trying to not make the same mistake in the next drawing "

Thanks, especially on the advice (permission?) to go over 45 seconds! I'll keep working, aiming for more sweeping lines.

My daughter paints and starts with a traced reference every time. She also uses the reference to determine colors and layers. I think she is learning a lot about shading, shape, color through the process although it certainly isn't formal training! I see her work improving too.