Reddit mentions of Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count

I’m no expert but I’d say to separate gesture from structure.

Start with a sweeping line to the express the overall pose. That’s the gesture, it will inform everything that comes after.

Next turn the gesture into a stick figure with head and chest just like you’ve done and a little box for a pelvis and triangle feet and hands. This is the beginning of structure.

This is the time to make sure all the proportions and slants are correct. Consider how wide and high the figure is and if that matches your stick figure. Where is the highest/lowest/leftist/rightest points and do they match in relation. This is the foundation for structure.

I’d recommend Steve Huston

Figure-Drawing-Artists-Making-Every-Mark-Count

I recommend getting Steve Huston book on figure drawing. It helps me a lot in my beginning year. https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-Artists-Making-Every/dp/1631590650/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535985514&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Huston

• Figure Drawing for Artist: Making Every Mark Count
  
  
• Color and Light: A Guide for Realist Painters
  
  
  From the Library I've taken out
  
  
• Eliot Goldfinger's Human Anatomy for Artists and Portrait Painting in Watercolor by Charles Reid.
  
  
  
  

Steve Huston has a very interesting book on figure drawing.

He also has some interesting ideas and wordings about the subject while also being one of the better teachers out there that I've come across.

https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-Artists-Making-Every/dp/1631590650/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=