second day

Looks decent. Good structuring; you're clearly getting the hang of creating a 'skeleton' for your figures. Your linework is a little hesitant though. It looks a bit shaky. To create smoother lines, a couple of tips:

1) Draw from the elbow or shoulder, not from the wrist. Lock your wrist and use larger muscle groups to move your hand--this makes for longer, smoother strokes. It takes some getting used to but once you get the hang of it, drawing is a lot easier (and kinder to your wrists!)

2) Draw through. Instead of trying to draw a line once in a contiguous unbroken stroke, draw it several times through, but lightly. Same goes for ellipses and other forms. Learning to draw more but in a softer tone will give your drawing more of an illustrative look, and help you figure out where your final lines really need to be.

Good luck!

Hello and welcome to LOA, Jolyne. Congratulations! You have recently posted your work here for the very total first time! I love how much line confidence and appeal to your poses. However, they still seem too itchiest, shakiest, wobbliest but scratchiest lines yet. How would you care to still be the most zaniest with your outlines with a 10 minute figure, all done entirely in blind contour mode?

The reason why you could and would draw in blind contour is because of two things: first of all, to help you make your most strongest but deepest shift from your analytical brain to your gutsiest brain. And second, to get you to draw most from what you see, rather than what you really think you see. For most info and tricks, please look into any of the Betty Edwards books from your local library or libraries. My hat's off to you.