Very helpful video! The section on Confidence (Sometimes you have to 'Fake It To Make It') and addressing Structure were nice touches. Attached are some "Notes To Self."

Im so stuck ... I've been on this lesson for 2 or more weeks . I've redrawn my chosen poses and they are not noticeably any better .Ive watched the demo today , what i noticed is that by the 4th pose you were flowing through . My brain gets in the way and i have to walk away . Soooo im guessing get out of my head . A week ago I was going to cut my losses and give up on this dream , but then i thought , but go where I don't want do something else I LOVE ART , AND I WANT TO DRAW IT MYSELF . So Im going to push through . thanks Stan for being upbeat and positive in your vids it helps when im not confident .

I don't think that I made progress. I think overall it doesn't look good. Can I go to perspective section? Or should I do more of this?

I'm not sure that i get what flow and rhythm is supposed to mean , for what i've understood , it looks like a simplification and then exageration of the most distinguisable parts of the form , but i feel that isn't right . I would appreciate a hand

Did another set of 10 pictures, with the first 3 referencing the demo. I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it...There are certain lines that just felt "right" to me as I was drawing, and I think they have more rhythm than my previous attempt. Will keep on practicing though, there's still room for improvement.

Small segment of what I have so far been going back and forth on different courses :)

Tried again after watching the demos and some critiques, and also switched to 18x24 paper and charcoal. This one felt better, more flow and rhythm, less simple CSI

Hey! I still do not understand rhythm well. When I watch Stan do it and copy off of him, It's pretty close. I copied some of the demos he did and tried some on my own(the last four are ones I found references for). I feel like I'm a deer in headlights when I try to do them on my own, I tried my best but need feedback and tips on how to be more confident and better. I would love some help!

A note on “confidence” vs “trust” when it comes to uh… confidence and confident mark-making. First, and most obvious, is that English is properly confusing. With that understood, “trust” is transactional. Now, You need to build trust in yourself by making marks intentionally and deliberately. With each mark, every time something desirable occurs, our trust that it will occur the next time goes up. Okay, so you sit to draw, and in 10 minutes you feel loose and warmed up and you settle into a session of gesture drawing, quick sketch specifically. Not every ellipse and line was perfect. But you trust yourself to put pencil to page and study some poses. Now, confidence, that is, in the sense of “belief in” needs no credit history or collateral. When you set out to learn to draw, you had some degree of confidence you could do it. And so you signed up for a course and dug into it. This is where the ‘confidence’ Stan is talking about comes in. By intentionally and attentively making marks on the page, you build both trust and confidence in yourself that whatever the current result, the next attempt has a great chance of being success, if you keep it up. Mark by mark. “Bad” drawing after ‘bad” drawing, whatever a “bad’ drawing is. The trust feeds the confidence, though confidence doesn’t need trust, if you think about it. It just does way better with it. Easier said than done of course. But if this were easy, then everyone would be doing it. And that’s why they think art is elitist and genAI needs to democratize it. 🙄 But most things worth doing are hard! As I’m reminded often, sure hard, but not serious. Build confidence by trusting yourself. By taking risks, understanding why they were successful or not, and trying again anyway, you will become what you seek to. Then you will make confident marks, to be sure.

Def I need more practice with rhythms... Any feedback is much appreciated!

Here is my 2nd attempt at the rhythms, I think I’ve improved since I last posted these. Each of these took me a while, about 10 mins on average. for me, finding the connection between the ribs and the hips is the toughest part.

I should definitely do more these exercise as it is challenging. But I am already proud some of them.

These were two different sessions of 8 poses, I feel like I stared to understand it alittle during my second go at it but my lines and my line weight were non existent here. Any tips to help me with those two problems is appreciated.

The second batch of practice I drew while watching Stan's Lave 1 Demo. Two of them were drawn with an overhand grip. I took too long (~30 minutes, even longer with an overhand grip) to draw each figure. I need to be able to draw faster.

Hello, this is my first time doing anatomy poses. I have no idea of what I'm doing or where to start, can someone please help me and give me critiques?

I did another set after watching the demo. This time I tried to be more mindful of ignoring the details and finding the flow, capture accurate proportions and also be mindful of line quality. These are some examples side by side (first before the demo, then after the demo). The results seem to me mostly hit or miss (not happy at all with the line quality) but it’s nice to see some progress overall. Any critique is appreciated.

I started by drawing heads and then torsos. 

Sup, I have a hard time with trying to find the rhythms of the arms when I'm drawing. Could anyone help me on how to find the rhythms of that. Another problem I have is how to draw the neck on my figures without them looking awkward or weird. Also could someone help spot my proportional errors that I've over looked, Thanks.

I create lines through the use of rhythmic movement. I did a lot but here are good ones to upload, these are mine.

I think the hardest part of most assignments is taking a decent picture to post. When I drew these pictures, I did not look at the reference photo. What I did was try to copy where you drew your lines, the quality of your lines, and how you held the pencil. I am not sure how much of a difference it makes, but I am left handed.