@peterdrake fwiw - while I am not great at drawing - that was precisely the point at which I stopped using books for learning and started watching artist videos. This isn't natural for me - I strongly prefer books to video for learning. But visual arts unfold continuously over time rather than in discrete intervals. And there's a lot of different right ways to do things depending on what style you're going for. Comparing a few artists' vids for similarities and differences shows a lot. My $0.02