Sweet, work dude! I have been following your 100project and am really glad to see big progression in your work.
TL;DR - Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals.
Now that you have a pretty decent understanding of gestures and are getting the hand of human anatomy. I'd say, this is the best time to implement a lesson plan and get your art fundamentals grounded too.
To implement a lesson plan, I would suggest the following order.
1. Perspective (ref) learn one point and multi-point perspective.
2. Human anatomy. (front view and profile view)
Skeleton breakdown
Skull, Rib, Pelvis, Hands, Legs
Muscle Structure - that cover the above.
3. Human Gestures 30 second (line stroke) (also here, here)
4. Human Gesture 1 min (with primitive shapes)
5. Human Gestures 2min (with shapes)
6. Human Gestures 10min
This lesson plan will help you in the following:-
1. Perspective -this is the most basic lesson for art. Perspective gives depth to a square and makes it a cube, a circle - a sphere. Since we have two eyes, we see things in perspective. This helps judge distance of the subject from the viewer. Perspective is applied in still, life and background art.
2. Human anatomy - lets look at human anatomy like playing with a toy robot. There are different parts that constitute to make the robot. Learn these different parts and how they are connected to each other. (not the best analogy, El bow :P)
Back to humans. To know how to draw a head, you have to understand how the head is constructed. learning the muscle breakdown will teach you an overview of what muscles are present there, which muscle overlaps what and how the all combine to create expressions.
Apply the same principle to the rest of the body.
3 to 6. Human Gesture- Now that you know how to draw a toy robot. Let's pose the toy and draw it.
Always start with a 30 second pose. This helps warm up your drawings. Draw for a few minutes, before moving up to the 1 min, 2min and 10min.
Conclusion:
Try and set a realistic goal for each plan. Time does not matter, but the number of pieces to be made does. Work on these goals at any pace you want, as long as you don't stop.
Restating your lesson plan
1. Better Proportions
2. Better connections between limbs and torso
3. Better anatomical details
4. Learn to draw from imagination instead of references
The above lesson plan covers all that you need in the right order of being a better artist.
This lesson plans does leave out a few things like types of mediums to use, or rendering style or presentation, all of which could make your art unique.
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My three pointers for you.
1. Ignore render style for the moment. The plan is to improve your anatomy skills. Once you have hit your goals, then move on a new lesson plan to work on rendering skills or play with different mediums (digital, oils, pens, mixed media, etc)
2. Do this lesson plan for you and only you. If' you are uncomfortable showing it to anyone, don't. If you do make it public and work better under the pressure of your peers asking how much you have done, that's fine too. But make it a point to document your progress, archiving it online or offline.
I strongly say this because time and again, it's necessary to go back to your first drawings and see how far you have progressed. This self evaluation will keep you motivated.
3. Ignore presentation. Work on your goals. If you want to post your stuff here, do it. No ones judging, as this is a practice forum, not the critique forum.
Now with respect to #4. Learn to draw from imagination instead of references.
Drawing from imagination is bloody tough, but you only get better with practice.
My art always turns out pretty ugly the first time. I erase or delete so many times till I get it the way I like. I used to see artists draw live and shietz, these people were soo skilled! It was very intimidating to see some one soo skilled just make something out of thing air. It was only later that I realized that these artists use techniques and practice drawing similar pieces, a ton of times before doing it live/publishing it.
ok, bye bye
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