Figure Drawing Practice #1: Gesture and the Bean

This starts off a concentrated effort in learning figure drawing and then anatomy. My motivation is mostly personal reasons because it's not fun drawing a body and feeling like your understanding is really lacking. So let's start the journey to better bods.

 I'm using proko vids to start off. Notes and reflections under the cut.

Some notes...a lot of notes.

 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74HR59yFZ7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j39NqwL7s4

I remember watching these videos like a few years ago when someone pointed out I was approaching gestures wrong. Interesting that something I was doing for years turned out wrong. So yeah critique is valuable when self learning.

 Da...Bean... Idk how useful this is but i will try anything at this point.

Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0660Fuih7qo

I already posted the exercises above. I don't have much to say about them... Except wtf am I doing.