Today the computer was free for a long time, so I spent about 2h in total pure drawing time on 1 min gestures. Ended up with 50 because I redrew several to understand them deeper - the first attempts at them ended up bad. I also ended up spending a bit more than a minute on most of them - I found I lack about 10 seconds to complete most. + I use the windows clock app to manually set timers, so that and scrolling through images takes up some time. 2h is the result.

I feel like I am starting to understand what Vilppu is talking about. I wouldn't say I'm definitely "feeling the form" but there's a vocabulary of lines that help quickly mark the main points of a figure. I even have time to think about accuracy for a bit now! On that note, I need to level it up. I've spent some time copying stuff in the past, so I've got a bit of basic skill in that, but more is always good.

I remember the other anon said I have no excuse to draw as little as I do because gestures can be done in trad. That is true, but my references are on the computer, also the PC table is the only free sufficiently large surface where I can draw. Also I can only really seriously concentrate when I'm using it.

Ah well, more excuses, I can just take a board to place a sheet of paper on and send the images to my phone. No limits for one who wants to learn. I will remember this next time.

I have also found I am extremely inefficient about my drawing time. In about 5h I was using the computer and tablet for, only about 2h were pure drawing time, as I said. The rest were spent on useless, recursive thoughts and walking around the apartment doing random stuff and chatting with relatives. This has always been my bane, I will try to make more of a conscious effort to remove these thoughts from my mind. (Note from the end of the post: I have also spent about 50 minutes typing this up and re-reading this for coherency and mistakes... seriously, what the fuck am I doing with my time?)