Help with proportions and speed

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    Hi! I’m struggling with wonky proportions I definitely struggle with leg length and finishing quick drawings for the short ones i feel like i spend too much time on the chest and don’t really get to the limbs.The more detailed drawings took around 20 minutes and I feel like I struggled the most with the woman sitting down. i’d love to hear some tips and suggestions. the drawing's do contain nudity  
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    #39924
    Hey, for the short ones, I recommend sticking to wide lines around the edges, or trying to start using just lines, instead of blocks if that makes sense? 
    Like, for the 30-second ones, I found that having a model and a pose to copy, you can mostly stick to a cross for the shoulders and ignore the volume of the chest, for example? And the more you practice this way, the more you can just skip that part for the super short ones and just go with the main line of the figure and it really ends up improving your anatomy...
    I see the ones in the middle of the 2nd page, which I assume are 2-5 minutes, are pretty well rendered so I'm guessing your main issue is time, and that really comes down to practice. (Also, everyone has different speeds, so if you're a slower drawer that's also okay and you don't need to stress too much over it unless you're aiming for a career where you need to draw a lot of stuff really quickly - doing it in 1 minute instead of 30 seconds is not that bad, especially seeing as your 20 minute sketches are really good already)

    As for the length of limbs, try to keep in mind the basic proportions, (Link to very basic proportions), from which you can extrapolate how long each part should be - keep in mind that they might change depending on who you're drawing as no human is ever the same, and some people just do have longer legs (which is why in your 20 minute sketch, it doesn't look too out of proportion for her to have longer legs, since sometimes that just happens) - also usually men tend to have shorter legs and more torso than women if you want to play laws of averages for it.
    All in all, you did pretty good and most of what I could point out really comes down to practice, so just experiment and don't stress too much, you'll get where you want to be in the end as long as you keep at it.

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