50 gestures done over the past few days. I'm not drawing as much as I want to because I often don't have access to the PC.

Watched the first Vilppu video and read the first chapter of the manual for this. Initially started doing them at 1 min per picture, struggled with them, but persevered. Rewatched to remind myself of the technique at around 34th, drew the last 10 ones or so without the timer, but they turned out messy. The last 4 or so I drew smaller to match the strokes in the last part of the video, where he's drawing smaller on a sheet of A4 paper.

As I progressed, I found I have no fucking idea what I'm doing. He says in the book it should take 30 seconds tops to outline the general action (head, motion of the body and limbs). In the video, he says you should always be thinking, analysing the figure, feeling the form. It's difficult to do all this in 1 minute at the same time as drawing. I often don't understand, in particular, how the pose of the standing figure can be captured. How to capture the action in as few strokes as he does. Tried different approaches, but none work 100%.

I will continue trying, however. He mentions his students do this for 6 hours during day classes, perhaps by the time I reach that milestone, I will understand something.

I found myself struggling a bit with the tablet as well, some precise shapes are tough to capture (I did switch it to proportion mode so it doesn't distort the strokes). I don't want to turn on stabilisation like another anon suggested - I'd like to draw with confidence even without it.

It is important to take breaks from studying to have more fun, so I plan to draw a cyberpunk scene tomorrow.

References were taken from the ref thread and sketchdaily website.

I hope all anons here are learning something new and having fun drawing as well.

Ganbarou!

(I'll reply to a few recent posts in the next post, symbol limit)