I would recommend starting out with gesture--a quick, flowing sketch--before diving into constructing the anatomy for your characters. This both makes tackling the figure much easier and adds liveliness and energy into your poses. This video goes more in-depth: https://www.proko.com/s/3VTb Hope this helps!

Thanks @Katey Jensma for response and link; much appreciate, and will email.

Hi Aryapandey, very nice work! Your question is actually quite tricky to answer. The truth is there is no one best way to go through all the things an artist has to learn, but we all do indeed have a whole lot to learn! I think it is good that you're dedicating several days a week to these isolated areas. In my opinion it is usually a good idea to pick a couple things at a time to be studying in tandem until you grow comfortable with them, but not too many things that you become overwhelmed. I will say that there tends to be a stage of development as artists where we get comfortable enough with drawing that we become excellent copyists, but we aren't retaining as much knowledge as we could be. My suggestion is to always be clever and 'test' your progress by drawing from imagination. This has helped me so, so much in my own education. For example if you spend a couple of days drawing from Burne Hogarth's books, spend some time afterwords drawing those same things from imagination to test how much you retained, and what you need to go back to and study again. Are you able to draw a convincing torso, arms or legs, with nice shapes and form? Using a process like this, you create a self-improvement feedback loop that will really help push your ability to make choices and not just 'copy'. Also, as a sculptor who draws, I cannot undersell how much developing one skill has helped the other. If you really want to get better at understanding 'mass' i highly recommend giving some anatomy and figure sculpting a shot! I guarantee some practice in that arena will help your drawing skills. Hope these tips help some, and keep up the great studies!

I'd like to add that Stan has recommended 2 weeks maximum on each module in one of his courses, regardless of if you feel comfortable with the material in that module or not (cited from the Draftsmen podcast). This is to prevent getting stuck in one module for months trying to perfect it, which is counterproductive. And as Lincoln said, Figure drawing first, then anatomy. It's actually better to probably do both at the same time, with some proportion like 90% figure drawing 10% anatomy, but focus primarily on figure drawing

By the way, when you're posting to get help, make sure to check the little checkbox "Post as help request", it flags your post in red and makes it easier for anyone to see you're expecting feedback. You could also tag people @ who you'd like to get help from, sure! I'll always be glad to try and help, so feel free to tag me anytime, although you can also feel free to ask for feedback from anyone at the community. Another thing is that you can post directly on the lesson you're studying - for example, since you're studying hands, a good choice might be to post your sketches on one of the Hand lesson's pages. Hope this helps!

Hey @Angela Villegas, I remember your name from the e-mail critiques! These sketches look nice to me. It seems you solved the challenge of how to show the middle finger farther back with overlapping wrinkles from the pointing finger at the base and with some perspective at the nails, I think it looks pretty good. The back view looks fine to me too. Maybe you could sketch out the bones inside so to figure out what is happening with the wrist. One thing I'd suggest is maybe develop the sketch a little bit past a loose sketch stage so you can tie down the lines some more and make the forms and structure clearer. You could also try using some more cross-contours at the joints when drawing the fingers in perspective. Hope this helps!

@Liandro Roger .....still learning how to get help and realized that I need to put in an @