Good Enough is Enough

I found a decent figure-drawing tutorial. YouTube is overflowing with art "tutorials" that are awful.

( rant about annoying videos )

But there are a fair number of art teachers on YouTube who do explain what they are doing clearly. I'm always pleased to find another one: Richard Smitheman

( good video )

Look! My human came out human-shaped.

(Please ignore the hands, feet, and head, because he didn't cover that in the tutorial and I mostly gave up.)

Richard Smitheman, tutorial #1

drawesome has a nice prompt this month about diverse body types and I'd really like to try to come up with something for it but I fear I may also spend the entire month practicing the "ideal" body types from all the figure drawing tutorials because until I get a hang of the basics, I can't improvise anything else. (Note that from the point of the view of art tutorials, "ideal" means skinny enough that bony landmarks are visible. It's not even intended as a judgement call by most of them; skinny people and muscular people are easier to draw than average people.)