/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3374329
Ok lads, I'll admit it, not only did I overestimate my abilities, I overestimated them more than I think I ever have in my entire life. Not only am I not better than that loomis head drawing newfag, I'm actually worse. I really am sorry, I thought I could at least say I wasn't the lowest of the low, but I'm lower. Anyway this was something I drew before posting my question, which I knew was not presentable. After having an anxiety attack from failing at every attempt to draw something new however, I just decided to try and fix this one, which made it in many ways worse. It started off as an attempt to learn gesture(I'm only on the gesture part of hamptons book, I haven't gotten to anatomy and part of my frustration was that gesture didn't seem like a sensible beginning) but once that was borked I just began turd polishing for several hours. Here's the reference first

How exactly do you draw the flow of the spine with this?(or something like it)

>>3318920
reference

>>3317915