Excercise - Essential shapes

Again I am using the OCA's  Drawing figures supplement document as a reference for the drawings done as part of this exercise, with the intention of adding some examples drawn from life at a later stage.

My understanding of the exercise is to break the body of the model up into basic shapes and or simple three-dimensional forms in order to define the bulk, a sense of the body having mass/volume.

Starting with the basic shapes and rendering  the body as a whole should hopefully help identify measurement issues before you start adding to much detail... don't want to spent a lot of time on one area of the picture only to find out that the composition will not work... feet etc., fall off the edge of the paper (...maybe intentional)

The following are my sketches were I have used shapes to capture the essences of the space taken up by the model:

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