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Thank you both for your feedback! I've been doing 20 minutes of practice per day now and I'm focusing on drawing with my shoulder. It's a hard skill to learn!

In terms of anatomy, how do I begin to learn that? Do I trace photos? Do I copy them by sight? Do I need to start learning muscle names and stuff or should I focus more on general shapes and proportions? I just don't know where to start, what to draw and how to draw it.

Thanks again!

Hey folks, I'm brand new here and I want to learn how to make my drawings more fluid and dynamic. I spent an hour drawing gestures today, and I think I'm doing ok as a beginner, but they aren't quite right. Can someone take a look and tell me how I can start heading in the right direction? Since I'm brand new, I want feedback on my first drawings so I don't start developing bad habits. (I've only done gesture drawings a few times in my life, so these are some of my first.) Thank you!

https://imgur.com/a/I3AZfoY

Also, what the heck are you supposed to do with 30 minute poses? I feel like I ended flooding the page with lines and making my drawing muddy before the 15 min mark...