I think 2nd day of drawing gesture. All with 2 minutes which is not a lot of time ^^

Third day of drawing 10 for 1 min and 10 for 2, I've rewatched the videos a couple times and seeing other student submissions I want to do better, any feedback will be __greatly__ appreciated, thanks!

Two powerful tips to help you get the most out of this lesson and this course. TIP 1: GIVE YOURSELF MORE TIME. Like many of you, I started this course with no experience figure drawing. The first time I tried doing exactly what Stan suggested, drawing 30 second quicksketches in 30s-1m and 2 minute quicksketches in 2-3m. The result were sketches that were bad. Ugly, messy lines, failure to capture the gesture, all the problems identified in the later critique video. I felt discouraged and quit for a while. The second time I decided to give myself as much time as needed (which ended up being around 5m to begin with) to draw the 30 second quicksketch. A few dozen sketches later I can draw a good quicksketch (not quite as good as Stan's), but one that captures the gesture well, has clean lines, and looks pleasing. I feel very happy with this progress and motivated to continue. And I have no doubt I can draw more quickly with practice and reach the 20-30s that Stan can do this in. At one point, Stan suggests giving yourself more time is a bad idea. I agree it is a bad idea if you are using that time to just draw more. But instead I use that time to think, visualize, ghost, etc. My 5 min quicksketch has the same number of lines (or even fewer) than Stan's 30 second quicksketch. When starting to practice, it's important to practice correctly, even if that takes more time. Once you have it down, you can always practice more and cut down the time. But if you start out by rushing, you will develop poor habits. And with poor habits come poor drawings, with poor drawings poor motivation, and with poor motivation, quitting. TIP 2: GET PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK ON YOUR DRAWINGS. This tip has four steps. Step 1. Pause the example video BEFORE Stan draws anything. Do your quicksketch. After you're done, critique it yourself. Step 2. Watch Stan's quicksketch. Then compare your quicksketch with Stan's and see how they differ: * How the gesture is captured (e.g., sharp corner vs curve, long vs short line, C vs S vs I shape, darker vs lighter line, use of 1 vs 2 vs 3 segments, which details were omitted, etc.) * How clean the lines are * How beautiful the lines and overall sketch look * Etc. You may want to write down or mark up the differences so you can clearly see them. Step 3. While looking at Stan's quicksketch, draw it to get a feel of how to do it Stan's way. Step 4. If you want, you can then rewind the video back to before Stan draws anything (but with the model showing). Then redo steps 1-3. Why does this method help? Because it allows you to try it yourself first, then check your work against the teacher, clearly identify the differences and give yourself feedback, and then try again with the benefit of that knowledge. This is far superior to just drawing along with Stan - by doing that, you are just copying the video and lose the benefit of getting personalized feedback on your own work. Once you're done with this method (which will happen given Stan only offers a large, but limited, number of examples), of course draw with other reference images. But even then, you can come back a few days (or week) later to redo this exercise with Stan's examples and see what progress you've made. If you get it perfect (or nearly so) on Step 1, you know you've seriously leveled up your gesture drawing game. If you're far from perfect, then you'll get mileage from redoing this exercise again. These two tips have helped me a lot, and I hope they help you. I also welcome your critique or feedback on these tips and any other tips you have for this lesson is very a challenging one. And please hit like if these tips helped you so they can benefit others too. Thanks!