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@Pubic Enemy:  Thank you for the feedback - I think I will try your suggestion of experimenting with less construction for a while - although I will probably still try to do it in my head -  just won't make the marks on paper.

@Kaiko:  Thank you - I actually find the foreshortened angles easier to do since when I am faced with a flat image I struggle to make the piece look interesting (to me anyway).  Also, I will try to leave out a few construction lines for a while and see how I get on.

Slow progress with this comic page study as I got distracted by forearms (more on that further below):




So I've been longing to be able to draw forearms properly for a while now and this comic page study highlighted how uncertain I felt when drawing the monster Thor's forearm.

So I dug out my Stephen Rogers Peck book "Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" and studied - my aim is to understand how the muscles and bone structure all connect together - origins and insertions:




Here's me trying to memorize the extensor muscles from this Proko video (I found it useful where he simplified the extensor muscles into a bullet shape diagram - this helped me remember the relative configurations of the muscles better):




Trying to memorize the ridge muscles from Proko and from the Rogers Peck book:




Trying to memorize the flexor muscles from Rogers Peck and some extra research on the internet (the free version of Proko does not go into detail for these as the individual muscles aren't as obvious on the surface as they are for the extensors):




Any hints and tips on forearms and/or on my study strategy would be most welcome - thanks!