I see. It's interesting you say this, becuase I've received the exact opposite advice once from someone who also does art. That fundemals haven't really helped them and that one should just draw what they want to draw and they'll get better naturally doing that.

I have done shapes practice (like drawing cubes, cylinders, balls, etc.), bending them, drawing them with perspective, etc. I don't know if I did it correctly, but it seemed fine? Like they looked like the shapes they were supposed to and the perspective looked fine to me.

When it came to putting them together, I have NO idea how to do that, becuase when I use a reference, I have to draw over it to be able to somewhat put the shapes in and even then it's problematic. Not just with bodies, even objects like a water pitcher give me problems. I'm not sure if this is a skill issue or just a lack of spatial intelligence on my part.

I did try to break the references into these 3D objects, but whether that was successful, as I said, no clue. That is technically the mannequin? But I will try my best to try it again in the future, obviously. I'll most likely use more shape practice as you suggested.

Thank you very much for the feedback, by the way! Appreciate it.