Second pass on the upper back studies, just the neck again and I'm finished with the torso section, like the entire fucking section, i can move onto arms next. Sometimes I do consider just quitting and going back to just drawing like normal but considering how much I've learned from this course and that I have a lot to work on when it comes to arms and legs I'm trying to stick with it. Even if I don't find that much improvement from the course by the end I think I've got the information to improve more in my regular art in the future, most importantly doing this course and being more openly horny has made me more of a pervert for the body I think and the best way to learn how to draw something is to be a pervert for it, which is why I'm going to force myself to develop a perspective fetish next. I joke but yeah I don't know I think i've developed a lot as a person and an artist since 2025 started and even when i'm feeling depressed about my art and stuff I think I'm in a much better place now than before, I just wish I had started becoming like this years ago and not when I'm close to 30.

Now to actually talk about the study itself I ended up not doing any gesture drawings before this because while I did think the 60 gestures idea was interesting and I think my gestures are more loose, to some degree that might be a little detrimental perhaps, I felt like it was kind of creating another barrier to entry to getting these anatomy studies done and I'd like to get through this course before the end of May so removing something that may be a barrier seemed like a good call. Though I will say after the fact I considered maybe I should've done at least 10 gestures like I was doing before as a means of warmup I think maybe I'd do better with some warmup. Similar to the last studies I don't think these are really better than the first pass besides maybe I remembered how the diamond shaped tendon does go all the way up the neck and I think I managed to remember the rhomboid more. The third drawing once again is very tricky, I really could work on perspective and form you can see I tried a little bit with form by doing boxes for the body sections but it's eh. I did know where the acromion processes(?) were this time though after watching the critique video which led to me realizing I don't know how to draw the scapula from that angle. Considering the nature of my aesthetics and the art I want to make I think I'll be able to get plenty of skeleton drawing done in the future though so I'm not gonna stress about it.

The reason for the time between the studies is cause I started getting bad stomach pain again so I definitely need to set up a doctor's appointment about that and also I was hanging out with friends and playing the new Tomodachi Life, pirated of course, very fun I'm surprised how much they let you do there isn't even a filter my whole island is talking about jerking off.