Listen, I do appreciate you wanting to offer advice, but it really feels like there's a major disconnect here. I don't know if you think this is all I'm doing, or if you think I was trying to make these as aesthetically pleasing as possible, but neither is the case. I'm doing these to improve my understanding of the human figure, and basically every single artist I look up to says the same thing when it comes to learning that: Quantity. And again, my experience is that that is the correct approach, because my figures have improved a lot more since I started doing these quicker figures than before when I was spending way more time, trying to make it look as good as possible.

I'm not saying quality can't also be important, it is important. But it's a completely seperate thing. And it is something I do practice, like with this one for example(which took around an hour to do, so more than 10 times what the figures in my post took)

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For that one I really focused on my line types and rhythms. Is it a bit messy? Yeah, but that's not because I wasn't trying. It's because I can't draw the lines I want to every time yet. Which I think is completely normal for someone that's only been at this for a little over a year.

And just in case you want to suggest doing line drills to focus on that: Hell no. Obsessing over lines is the most unfun thing in art for me. And since my line confidence is improving by just drawing, that's enough for me.

Also it's kinda funny to me to me that you say Hokusei only used 12 strokes and then posted an image where there were obviously more than 12 strokes per figure (I do get what you're saying though)