Summarised, it's pretty much productive procrastination. So I decided to complete torso gestures in Chris' free figure drawing course. And I struggled like crazy to draw the torsos in the timed poses video. So like every procrastinating artist does, I magically remembered I had other topics I wanted to practice and decided to focus on them for a while. I have a digital copy of 'The New Drawing On The Right Side of The Brain' by Betty Edwards, so I began working through a few pages, read some interesting information on how the brain works and its relation to art, drew a pretty decent self-portrait, my right hand and a copy of the optical-illusion drawing 'Vase/Faces'. I mostly repeated drawing exercises, started a "Learn to draw in 30 days challenge" by Marc Brunet, one of my favourite art teachers for stylized work (currently on day 6) and decided to observe how much I progressed in the last two months by drawing an original character and comparing it with one I drew in August (really surprised me). Eventually I returned to complete the timed poses video and did much better than before. Overall, art practice really made this holiday more enjoyable. I've finally got my art education organised and began to practice consistently even if it was only short drawing exercises. School will reopen next week, but I at least have a consistency plan now. Tldr; I had a great two weeks.

Hello all, I’m a self-taught beginner with no local life-drawing sessions or teaching available. I’ve been learning from books and Youtube, but thought I’d ask if anyone had any recommendations for online resources. Live courses/workshops are challenging given my work schedule and time zone, but I could do a course that meets on weekends. Thanks in advance for your recs!

Yeesh, so I've pretty much spent the last month or two dealing with exams and projects. I was basically doing drawing exercises this entire time. I did manage to do lesson 2 and 3 though. Also got distracted trying to learn how go draw hands, which turned out pretty well. But finally holidays begin in 2 days and I've had an annoying itch to do some serious art practice for the last month. Just 2 more days. Here is anything I deemed notable practice from this time period, except the drawing exercises of course.

I've done my first actual portrait after I began studying art, but it doesn't really match the reference well and several parts are off to me. Still, it was pretty fun to draw. What do you think?

I've just begun the Figure Drawing Course. It was fun and I think it went pretty well. Here's homework #1, took about 50 minutes. What's the verdict?