A week of referenced drawing

So far, the results of me doing a daily drawing challenge have been that it's forced me to sit at the drawing table every day and made me more productive, but also that it's made me feel very incompetent. Drawing from reference is something that I've neglected for a long time in favor of just crapping out the next story with drawings from my imagination - basically, functioning as a writer-who-draws rather than as an artist. I guess practicing every day for a month will help with that, especially if get a few opportunities to draw from life.


Two things that aren't helping me stay motivated:
1) The challenge is called Decemboobs2015, but the focus on breasts isn't working for me. It's important to learn to get them right, but each time I find a reference image that I want to draw, the breasts turn out to be the least interesting thing about them.
2) I'm not seeing a lot of other people's work on my Tumblr dash or on DeviantArt. I know that the challenge has a Facebook page that gets reasonable numbers of contributions (good ones, too), but because I have a semi-public, employment-like involvement with Facebook, I do not want to post nude images there or even Like the page. But that leaves me feeling a bit of a pillock because it looks like I'm doing the challenge on my own.

We'll see if I still feel that way about the challenge by the end of the month, and into the following ones. I'm thinking Junknuary, Vulvruary and Buttch. Anyone with me?


Update: Made a few changes to this post because I'm having serious issues with the name Decemboobs2015 today. I jumped into it when I saw it on my Tumblr dashboard because it seemed like a fun challenge to do that I could also do some unusual things with, but it's a bit hard to explain when you have to approach strangers for permission or to satisfy the terms under which they give permission in advance. I'll have to talk to the person who came up with it about that.