Exploring the colored pencils Santa brought me:

Anatomy aside, I still can't get a good feel of 3d forms in general - when drawing simple 3d primitives I still end up with distortion and crooked angles, and any attempts at foreshortening without any reference end up in total failures Any advice on this?

I guess it just takes a lot of time and practice until one can accurately render 3D volumes from scratch. I too am struggling with that.

For foreshortening without reference, there's a constructional approach in which you draw the object from a simple side view first and then use parallel lines emerging from key points to be able to tell where these key points would end up when foreshortening the depth of the side view into a new depth which goes "into the paper".

Here's a primitive example I just drew illustrating that:

I was trying the 2nd website wishie posted, but all the times seem to be off for me.  atleast for the longer poses I noticed them only lasting about half of what theyre supposed to.  Anyone else have this issue?  MAybe Ill post my stuff later but I cant scan it right now.

Had not measured the times while I was drawing but sometimes it felt like some poses didn't stay as long as they should have which I attributed to losing the feeling for time while drawing... odd.

Tried the class mode of that page wishie linked to earlier (looks like the time limit in each is giving me a hard time trying to finish anything):

20% constructed, 80% invented, 100% distorted 

roughly eyeballed from random posemaniacs.com poses:


edit, well seems like imageshack considered it to be pornographic 
uploaded again to private webspace: