Hi, @James, I’m onboard with Steve’s and Steven’s feedbacks to you and, assuming you’re ready to get focused on structure, here’s what I’d recommend as practical next steps in your study journey: . Study lessons 0, 1 and 2 at http://www.drawabox.com Besides reading the material, also take some notes for yourself and make sure to get some time to put things into practice with the suggested assignments and with some free practice of your own, if possible. . Take Proko’s Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. It’s likely that you will begin to get used to how the constructional drawing method and the use of 3D forms apply to drawing the human figure. When going through these, get plenty of feedback on your assignments and practices. Also, try to not get caught up on worrying about anatomy. As already pointed out by our fellows before, all the concerns about muscles and body types can be put on hold until you feel you’re comfortable with drawing the human body out of very simple forms - and, actually, drawing complex anatomy will definitely feel less complex once you feel a stronger grip on basic structure skills. If you have questions, please feel free to ask away. Hope this helps!

Hey James, The advise you already got was right on. I just wanted to add that you should really analyze the pose to see what is actually happening. Which way is the torso tilting or twisting. What is the pelvis doing and the head, what is its orientation. Then build all that information into your structural drawing before adding surface details like anatomy. If you do this part correct, your drawings will already feel like real, 3D figures. I did a sketch to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)

Looking at this and your other posts, I think it’d be valuable at this stage in your development to focus deeply on structure. These that you’ve posted are superficially different body types, but they are very flat, and I don’t think they will be as useful to you as they would be if you had drawn them with a focus on structure. Any mannequin structure is fine, but a super duper simple cube and cylinder structure is going to help tremendously to begin to think about the human body in terms of volume. If you struggle to draw structure, wrapping complex anatomy around that structure is going to be very challenging. Additionally, I would try to place about an equal focus on neatness. Your goal at this stage should be to make coherent, carefully considered drawings - they don’t need to be flawless but they need to be clear. One of the best ways to learn to draw cleanly as an early student is to get a big pad of newsprint and draw big, using the whole arm. It’s good to start learning a bit about line weight and how you can use it to emphasize overlaps and so on, but primarily just try to be tidy. The smaller you draw, the harder this will be - drawing a full figure or a complicated construction on a 5x7 moleskine page is going to be very difficult. As an exercise, I like to draw just piles of tumbling cubes. You can vary the sizes, or even the amount of perspective distortion between them. You can overlap them and try to use line weight to make it clear which is behind which. They don’t have to be perfect proportional cubes for this exercise to be valuable, but you should try to approximate 3 point perspective for each cube. When you don’t know what to draw this is a great “filler” exercise to help yourself get a sense of rough perspective and space, and to train your brain to focus on being tidy, but not ruler strict. Edit: To tie this back into your Proko studies, once you’re semi comfortable with a very generic cube mannequin, you can begin to distort and design those volumes a little bit to make them more organic, as in the “robo-bean” construction, which combines volume with a little bit of gestural thinking.