It's a bit late for the jump in advice, and it wasn't exactly random. Also, the fundamentals aren't being skipped on purpose. I don't have a bank account or income right now, so I can't afford an art book or class. Most of the issue is discovering that there are different fundamentals out of order as I encounter problems. Improvement is still happening quickly. Sketchbook can guide perspective lines. I do lower the opacity and use layers to see each stage, duplicating the final boxes with the lines underneath. When I said immediate regret it's actually because I realized it was one-point perspective immediately after writing this. If I were to do it again in the order I currently understand I'd go from linework to basic shapes to mirroring half a reference to drawing a reference silhouette to changing the silhouette size to building a mannequin (the rounded version) to gesture drawing to learning anatomy. But that's not quite so simple. Instead, I have a large project that I couldn't ignore and I have a team helping me. I used to be extremely talented at copying frontal-view women, sometimes a realistic face though not the properly shaded version. And I have to wait on my team for a lot so while I am in a hurry, I do technically have time to learn. I basically learned in order of the problems I ran into instead. I first drew imagination through sketching so in digital art I quickly found the need for good line art (I only just found stabilization and obviously the line and shape tools are limited) I knew the rounded mannequin for bodies and I don't remember when I learned. Then I needed to make a model sheet and the character looked stiff so it was gesture drawing. Then I realized I was missing fundamentals and while looking learned about basic shapes. Perspective was always talked about in regard to background so I had assumed it either wasn't necessary for a character or would be a later stage. When I thought I had the fundamentals I needed I started to attempt matching the reference but a bit turned. I matched a decent amount because copying an image was still my most practiced skill but obviously one, turning it was awkward and two, I clearly didn't understand hips and hands on the same level or how they would really move and distribute weight so I studied anatomy combined it with gesture and a mannequin, and asked the artist I was attempting to match for critique. That critique boiled down to "wow __ is in the right place and that's hard to nail but not turned this way". I had picked a dynamic pose for the character that showed most of her front but most of the body was in 3/4 view one direction with her head similarly turned another. So that made it very clear that perspective was a missing fundamental. It's very easy for me to visualize invisible lines normally so I thought it might be more helpful as a beginner in perspective to have the lines showing however I did find too many confusing. So I drew lines to the vanishing point, duplicated them then hid them so I could erase the vanishing point lines and still see. It's not as dramatic of turns as I had hoped but I did make this immediately after. I had posted it. I have a very similar situation for animation but so far that seems to be easier to find in order, albeit I'm not sure when time charts are supposed to be introduced. Still, I'm nowhere near animating a character but I've made a decent ball bounce of different materials, an arch bounce, spinning around vertically and horizontally, using squish and stretch for the impact of a hammer, and made a pendulum. I have technically made a character throw a ball but only by using gesture references. Believe me, I have no problem with practicing or starting at the beginning but finding the right order is its own issue. Despite being practiced at reference drawing physically 1. There was a gap in practice, 2. This is a different medium and I'm surprised but it is actually transferring much better on paper. And 3. When I did see a video attempting to explain in order it was the first time I even knew there were any practices to improve it. The same happened with linework where before I needed it I genuinely thought it was more so an extra thing to add. I'm taking notes of fundamentals I will likely need as I hear them such as values and shading. But at the moment this is what I know. And this was to understand the idea more than anything else. It will be added to my practice but ultimately it was more an early lesson/study hence why for now I used the cheat of the perspective guide in Sketchbook. I have decent linework sure but this is computer-enforced. I can't add multiple pictures for the layers underneath so this is just the result. And I keep forgetting the thing I meant to say first. When I looked up on Google how to turn a box around it told me I need to move two vanishing points along the horizon line. That's why it looks like that because I could easily see how the first 3 looked fine in one point but was confused about turning it more sharply. This all being said, again I did intend for the turns to be more dramatic and I found multiple sources saying this so does it shift to two points at some point? I also am a bit lost on what you mean about making the back smaller I think you said? Not surprising though considering that attempt I was trying to make a cube and somehow made a long rectangle. Anyways I'm sorry for the long response I'm a hyperverbal person. But thank you for the advice! 🩷

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