I've still been arting around, but my current technique of drawing a stick figure, and building the body around it was quickly starting to fail. As they say- when all else fails, go back to the basics. In my case, the basics just happened to be thesefine books (No, seriously, these are good books for beginners, and cover a lot of things in basic body construction). In itthem, I saw some of the poses I mimicked for practice, and decided to try something crazy: forget the stick figure and go in straight to the mannequin!
These mannequin drawings are the last few. To compare, I drew one picture in my current way, and in this new way. Be sure to tell me what you think! ^w^