I don't think there's a wrong to be in here - it's not a morality question. It's not a black and white good vs evil battle. If you don't like to draw in this way, that's fine, it doesn't say anything about you as a person other than this book isn't your speed.
I don't agree with this defeatist attitude that you shouldn't draw to improve, you got this!
Also I think full figure tips can be translated to the other categories as well. A line of action exists in hands and faces as well. The way you draw shapes as a base for your figure works in everything too.
(backgrounds have shapes - that's why you have that category with the building blocks. they're specifically just shapes without the noise of like, outside detail)
like, what you should consider in this case I think is that coming up with those base shapes IS the first part of the exercise. Like if you're drawing a hand, where do you put your circles? Maybe you could print out some pictures and draw on top of them to figure out base structure for yourself, etc.
Either way, have fun!
What tends to work for me is that if I get in this situation where like, I feel like I'm practicing AND not learning, to focus on something in particular. Because it's generally that my problem is that "I want to get better" isn't specific enough to actually get better at anything in a way I can actually process.
Now this focus can be anything from "I want to understand arms better" to "I want to draw faster" or whatever you come up with, but I think it'll help to focus on something you can actually parse if it DOES get better.
You know - And this is speaking as someone who has NOT read this book at all - sometimes I think it's important to remember that... Different strategies work for different people.
Like, there could be people this is a very intuitive way of learning for, and for others it's just abstract nonsense. For example, I personally really struggle with the whole "making boxes" out of people to understand their anatomy, but it absolutely works for others! All it means is that our brains comprehend things in a different way.
If you feel like this book has nothing for you? It doesn't matter if 'everyone' thinks it's fantastic, it could just really have nothing for you specifically. (Heck, sometimes acknowledging that kind of thing can teach you more than the entire book would.)
