I've been using the same daily practice structure for a year and I want to share it because it's produced the most consistent improvement I've had in a long time.

Morning warmup (15 min): gestural figure drawing at 30-second intervals. This is only about line quality and proportion capture speed. No rendering, no details.

Study block (30 min): targeted study of a specific weakness. For the last three months this has been hands and foreshortening. I rotate the subject quarterly based on what I identify as limiting my work.

Project work: however much time I have. This is where everything else goes — commissions, personal pieces, experiments.

End-of-session review (5 min): I look at everything I made that day and note one thing that worked and one thing that needs attention. The note goes into a running document. Monthly I review the document for patterns.

The structure removes the decision of what to do. I never sit down and wonder what to draw. I follow the structure. The decisions about what to study are made weekly, not daily.