If you were looking to improve as efficiently as possible and you spent 10 hours per day drawing (in order to make the maths easier) how would you divide your time?
I think the best way would be splitting your time into 3 categories
Theory
>reading/copying books/lectures
Practice
>Focusing on one specific thing eg. loomis heads, drawing the arm over and over etc
The real thing
>Creating the thing you actually want to make
You might look at your last finished drawing/painting and see the hands aren't what they should be, so you decide to find a book about hands and read through it, then copy out hands from reference as well as from imagination, and repeat this till the hands in your finished paintings look good, then you find something else that you aren't happy with and repeat.
How would you divide the time between these if you were spending 10 hours per day?
I think you would want atleast double the amount of practice as theory, probably more so something like 2h reading 4h practice 4h real thing might be a good start
thoughts?