I've started taking my art course and am quite happy to be learning how to draw human figures relatively early on. There was a Photoshop class first (though I have many years of experience with PS, so I mostly just doodled while that was talked about), and then we got straight into the good stuff.
Taking the human body and piecing it out as a skeleton, and then growing it up from there is a really intuitive way of getting proportions and everything right. I'm really happy to be learning this stuff, and I feel it's already helped massively.
Here are a few more progress images from the first figure class:
If you like what I'm doing and want to talk about it, hit me up!