>>3667215watch videos by proko, drawing database, vilpuu, hampton, huston, on youtube. Follow along, draw with them, then take the things you learned and draw on your own with reference. Example, you watch a video on gesture and then you spend a few hours using ref doing your own gestures with what you learned, rinse and repeat.
Gesture is action/energy of the figure simplified into flow lines, it serves as a composition guide to place your bricks allowing you to maintain the essence of the figure when placing construction. Construction is your bricks and you want to use as simplified bricks as possible, essentially containing the volumes first of the leg/arm/ribcage, then continuously contain the inner volumes (details).
It does seem abstract at first, but after awhile of just doing it you'll see it helping, it starts making more sense as time goes on and you get better and better.
Write, don't keep it all in your head, writing helps you solve problems as well as remember things, you wouldn't solve a math problem in your head.
Take note of things that help you, take note of anatomy preferences.
