tiny angry voice in my brain screaming at me to use ref but the urge to be lazy too great-- thus i get terrible looking poses and have no clue how to draw hands or feet

Onward...

Ugh! I’m trying to make my figures less stiff

photo reference used

Photo of Yazemeenah Rossi for reference. My painting is not that bad but failed at her likeness and ageless beauty.

I keep taking on things which are too big for me to finish in a timely fashion and so I never do, hopefully posting progress on this will make me a little more likely to actually make it into a complete thing.

EDIT: Uploaded a slightly less horribly compressed version.