When the call for participation in a drawing challenge focused on breasts arrived on my dash, I thought, "sure, I can do that easily" and so I joined. Turns out I was wrong about that: I missed 8 days out of 31 and the quality of the work I produced was very uneven. I still had fun most of the time, and it's allowed me to chip away at problems in my art and hopefully helped me become, like, a 0.1% better artist. 

My favorite pieces from the project: 

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These are the ones where I think I was "on" on the day I drew them. The other ones, meh. I think the fact that my quality is so inconsistent is as big a problem as the specific faults that you can find in any artwork that I've done.

Tricks I learned: 
1. Using a center line really helps determine what goes where. Also, the best reference pictures follow the Rule of Three, and so should the art drawn from it.
2. When working in digital tools, use the features they offer. Set the aspect ratio to that of the reference image, use layers and rescale your sketch as needed.
3. Counting repetitive elements in the background is hard.
4. Stylize the main mass of hair, but add detail on the edges to make the hair look more alive.
5. Nipples aren't where I think they are, most of the time. They're usually just a bit lower and more to the sides. But not by that much.
6. Good models deceive the viewer all the time. They are actors as much as anything else.
7. A little bit of construction early on helps, but too much of it detracts from the attempt at drawing what you see. Constructing faces and bodies is a separate skill from drawing from observation and should be the subject of a separate challenge later in the year.

Next up: Janus-uary.