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Figures...make me blush.

  Another two weeks after the animation, I found myself going back to Proko, Mathew Matisse, and Glen Vilppu and even started more certificate-driven courses all on figure drawings and gestures. Been months of focusing on primitive objects, the foundations of art, and using them in storyboards and the 4P playground exercise, and even though gesture sketching was already a short routine since I first passed through Proko, I felt it was time to hone in on this skill to make my routine more structured and knowledgeable, but also to dive my storyboards the characters they deserve.     This was a deep rabbit hole I did not expect and came to find out it is one of the longest to master skills as traditional artists can be paid good money for understanding, proportions, anatomy, and likeness. It was time to lay down the chalk and begin using a real sketchbook. Especially if I was to start proving my work outside of Linkedin, I suppose no better time than now to sketch for r...