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@JyonnyNovice:  Thanks for the encouragement and the advice.  I think you are right about mixing things up - I am going to do some more slow and thoughtful studies as well as quicker exercises.

@DQ_Nick:  Thank you too for the encouragement.  By burnout I actually meant lack of sleep!  I'm loving the anatomy studies at the minute as I feel like I've improved a bit over the past month or so.  I guess the best cure for sleep deprivation is ... sleep!

Anyway I'm trying to weave in some fundamental type studies now.  Here's a Loomis type figure drawing in perspective.  I struggled with this but found a rudimentary process that seemed to work:

1. Draw the 2D outline in the perspective plane.
2. Draw transverse cross sections at strategic locations.
3. Draw at least one longitudinal cross section through the middle of the body.

These three steps seemed to help me put together a 3D figure in perspective.  

Although putting together the grid in Gimp took me just as long as drawing the figure!