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Thank you for the help! I might need to start with giving myself more time. Maybe I am comparing myself to others too strongly, because I just feel like there is some simple thing I am misunderstanding when it comes to these warm-ups. Like how I can’t get the proportions right just by eye. 

I am very much passionate about getting better at art, which might be why I am so hard on myself and feel like I cannot do it when I feel I “fail” at things like these gesture drawings. I struggle with being a perfectionist when it comes to my art, so I’ve been doing these timed gestures to try and get better at just drawing without spending hours on every small line and detail.

Thanks very much for your words, I guess I will have to keep doing these until I feel I’m improving. I was just hoping there were some tips or information on how I could properly use these references to create something more accurate, or how I could get these outlines and shapes to make sense in my mind in a way that I can get back down on the paper.

For starters, here are some 30 second gesture drawings I’ve done using class mode: https://imgur.com/a/jvdGj3u

They are very bad. They don’t look in the shape of a human, and there’s no confidence in any lines. Nor do any lines properly imitate the models. I just feel unable to do that. I can’t figure out how to look at a reference and have my sketch match up in any sort of way. I’m told it doesn’t matter because I’m just training my brain to see the shapes, but I can’t imagine that’s going on when I’m not really learning these shapes since I can’t even imitate them. I cant get any lengths right or where I’m supposed to connect parts or how big something should be. 

I’m feeling like I should give up now since it might be a lost cause. These have worse anatomy than a preschoolers drawings.

My usual sketches take hours, an embarrassing amount of hours, because I don’t know what I’m doing. 

Any help at all is very much appreciated, advice at all on how to be able to draw these shapes or how I’m supposed to go about using these gesture classes. Anything works. Thank you.