Hi @Paul Olsen. You mentioned "carpal tunnel syndrome from hell." I've had some experiece with having dreams snuffed out from repetitive motion injury, and have a number of friends who have had surgery for carpal tunnel, with great results. Have you gotten a reliable diagnosis, and second and third opinions? Since you wrote that you are a beginner, it's worth taking the steps to make certain that your art making doesn't aggravate the condition - i.e. figure out how to move your body, what muscles to use, and how to let all other tension go so that you don't get hurt any worse. Doing it now before you develop your career will save you a lot of heartache. Trust me, no matter how much pain you think you can endure, it's not sustainable over many years. Musicians often turn to Alexander Technique or Feldenkrais Method for help. @Ky Brabson wrote about physical therapy in a post about help for art injuries a while back. I hope you are able to find the help you need soon :).

I never tried it, @Paul Olsen. Looking at it as a teacher, I think it doesn't look like a very effective learning method for one to follow: doing a "self-analysis" or a "self-critique" can be extremely hard for a beginner - sometimes, even advanced students and professionals find it difficult, that's why constructive feedback from someone else, preferably a more experienced one, is often so valuable and one of the best strategies to learn anything. Plus, if the pack has little theory, it probably won't help you get better at the fundamentals (which are the base for drawing any kind of variation for the figure, even stylized comic book characters). Best case scenario, it might help improve the observation, since it's pretty much about copying, analyzing visually and correcting based on what you see on the reference - but, from what I see in the image, even the reference drawings to copy from are not very good (they have wobbly lines and their structure is not strong). But I don't mean you shouldn't use it at all - if it motivates you to practice, it has its worthiness: it's getting you to draw something. So keep it up as long as you're having fun and you feel it's being helpful to you at that moment. But certainly make sure to reach out for other useful resources, especially ones that provide quality information on gesture, structure, proportion and anatomy, since these are the real fundamentals to draw any kind of figure. If you get good on these, you can always adapt them later for various styles, including comic book styles.