/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2611913
My first few drawings were bad.
Senpai my first few entire sketchbooks were bad.
Some people just don't start good, my off days still outnumber my good ones, but it's like weight lifting. Each hour you do is another chip off the wall of the hundreds/thousands it might take. If you really want to get good at drawing, if you really like drawing, you'll keep going.

I remember that exercise from Right Side Of The Brain. Not a bad book, I went through it when I started too. I suggest not following it with Loomis however, had much more luck with other books, but don't worry 'bout that yet.

My dumbfuck muscle study referenced from a Gottfried Bammes book.
A lot of his illustrations are so heavily stylized I'm not sure they're making for great direct study material, but they do provide lots of constructive figure drawing practice using the poses.