I thought I had lost my mind again when I looked back up at the video while drawing and all of a sudden there were all these hand construction drawings on the sheet. Nope. Just an edit. Anyway, a couple more things clicked for me in this lesson. The biggest thing: The landmarks are as you have said, places where the bones are visible through the skin, right? So when doing the tilts and masses the obvious thing is that they are great indicators of the angles of the masses and to some degree the extent of the mass. BUT WAIT! THERE's MORE! I kept getting stuck on contour when doing the gesture, something that has always been an issue for me when doing FORCE gesture a la Mike Mattesi. But suddenly, after having to go back and fix some of the earlier stages, to really lock in the idea of using the pencil/stylus as a sculptural tool, it suddenly clicked! When thinking about the perspective of the arms and legs, and using boxes and cylinders, these landmarks, like the edge of the ulna and the distal end of the radius for example, these dictate the extent of the form we'll use to tack the anatomy onto. So keeping the forms in 1 and 2 point perspective, not tapering to show depth but using 'above/below; towards/away' thinking, instead, we set ourselves up really nicely for that. I was always drawing the forms much wider or larger than they needed to be. MY BRAIN KEPT TRICKING MY HAND! It wanted to get to the drawing of the model, and stick with the abstractions that will serve the overall final result much better than trying to go straight at the model as a model. I hope that makes sense.

Great lesson. I like the simplified thin shoulder girdle - less clutter. I am beginning to understand the customisabilty of this approach and not getting hung up on any particular step. Less stressful approach for me especially when drawing in pencil as it reduces the number of marks piled on top of each other.

Current progress and personal practice so far.

I'm gonna go for more personal studies after this. I'm also thankful that I have an idea on how to use this method in the various angles.

Some more studies. Seeing the drawings of the palm of the hand helped my understanding with some other parts, also remembering to have fun in practice.

I’ve been a bit confused with the shoulder girdle concept when you’ve used it in previous lectures, but you’ve explained it perfectly in this one! Being shown how they can move independently with the little diagrams made it immediately click

Current progress in course

It seems like the video was cut short, will this be fixed?

My notes.