Hi @needsmuchhelp, nice studies! This is not easy. Nice job with showing dimensionality of the forms! - What's you art goal? Do you want to do animation, illustration, florence academy style portrait, or something else? Knowing that might help me guide you better. Feel free to put together a slide with a few examples of art by artists that you admire. Not just any artwork that you like, but the type of work that you'd like to create yourself. - The proportions are off in your drawings. I have some ideas to help you with that: Do a few more figure drawings, but rather than drawing boxes and cylinders focusing on the form, draw simple shapes. That will help you focus more on the relationship between the parts. The great thing is that within those shapes, is the form. If you want to show the form, you simply add crosscontours. You can see some examples of me drawing with simple shapes in this reply https://www.proko.com/s/nH3v - It would be great to see more energy in the poses you draw. I think you'd appreciate reading this reply https://www.proko.com/s/bcZ6 - I noticed that you posted some drawings for the Drawing Basics course as well. I think you'll really appreciate taking it. It will support you with a lot of skills that can help you with your figure drawings. This video for example shows How Animators Use Basic Shapes with Aaron Blaise. And the course also seems like a lot of fun :) I hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Well, I tried my best. Rib cage of the figure in frontal view is definitely to wide, but I'm pretty satisfied with the perspective. In my experience, when it comes to establish the two blocks for pelvis and torso, it's easier to first determine the plane closest to the viewer. That is a good starting point to see, how each block is situated in space. It's still hard though ...

You've got a good handle on the beans, they capture a good motion and volume from the references. I think with the landmark drawings, they could benefit from the same gestural quality you show with the beans already. It could benefit you to start out with a bean shape and add flowing rhythm lines, before adding in the structural landmarks. It's also great that you're measuring and comparing angles between landmarks, as this is the right spirit to approach this stage: an active workspace to place and correct and figure things out. But don't feel that the first line you put down has to be exactly correct and finished, feel free to draw over with light sketching until you reach the intended result. A loose drawing approach can help you find flow extending throughout the gesture too.

Your structure looks like you have the basic idea of it, you just need more practice is all. The biggest issue I see is proportion. Even if your construction were perfect, it would still be in the wrong place. It looks like you did a decent job with the "parts" (limbs, head) but didn't capture the overall big shape of the horse. The original horse could fit into a TALL rectangle, whereas yours would fit into a very WIDE rectangle. I'd take a look at Proko's gesture videos on youtube. But basically, start with the big shapes first and then work your way to the smaller shapes. Great job though, it just takes time and a lot of practice

Nice work! The five-line exercise is definitely a challenging one, but very helpful to warm-up and condense your gestures to the essential energy of the pose. I especially like the one based off the woman with her arms up, it nicely captures the flow from her feet wide apart and up into her pose leaning back. I think this is something to continue thinking about with the rest of the gestures, instead of keeping to the idea of a line specific for the arms, another for the legs, etc. try seeing if you can focus on the main flow of the image--and this can mean some of lines may merge legs into the torso or shoulders into the arms, or so on etc. Also, overall good work on the beans. For the one with the twist, it can help to think about which direction the front of each sphere is facing--I know twists can be quite tricky, so keep going. You got this! :)