Nice work, @Lucas! I think you’re getting the hang of it. As you keep practicing, see if you can use more of your shoulder to sketch! This should help add some more looseness and confidence to your curved lines. Here’s a video where Stan explains how this works: How to Hold and Control Your Pencil About the Bean, personally, I like to approach it in 4 steps: 1 - Find the main line of action, being mindful early on about what is the motion I’m dealing with (bend, tilt, twist…) 2 - Sketch the two spherical volumes very loosely, paying attention mainly to their position, angles, how they relate to each other in space (which one is above or below, in front or behind, if there’s overlaps or foreshortening etc.) and how they relate to the line of action to make up the “big picture”. 3 - Add in any other helpful visual information, such as cross-contours or “poles” on the spheres, if any is visible depending on the point of view. 4 - Draw the actual Bean, using all the previous stuff as a base to inform my drawing. I’m attaching a couple of examples over two of the references you used (a bend and a twist). As a bonus suggestion, I’d say you could try these first attempts using the same reference photos Stan uses in his example videos in the Bean lesson (you could take screenshots of the video for that, if needed). That way, you’d have a quick way to check your work by using Stan’s drawings as a reference to compare yours with. Hope this helps. Keep practicing and getting feedback as much as you’d like! If you have any more specific questions, feel free to pop them. Good studies!

Congratulations on discovering the bean! It has served me well, as it will serve u. a helpful thing to remember for the bean is that the two circles represent the ribcage and the pelvis. The ribcage and the pelvis do not touch in reality, however when we extend their shapes to make the circles that form the bean, they spheres/egg shapes overlap and occupy the same space. Hope that helps! Please ask questions if u have any :)

Hey Lucas, Remember the bean is the torso and pelvis and how they relate to each other. In the picture of the three women we are looking up at them, so the lower part of the bean would overlap the upper part. You also are showing the top of the bean, which we wouldn't see because of the perspective. I did a sketch to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)