Vilppu and Figure Drawing

From my local library I have been taking out the video series by Glenn Vilppu on figure drawing.  Chapter 1 involved teaching gesture drawing and starting with action.  Chapters 2 through 5 involved drawing the figure using spheres, cylinders, and boxes.  Basically, the trunk is a sphere, pelvis a box and the extremities are cylinders.  Chapter 6 involved, what he called the basic procedure, incorporating gesture and all the shapes.  Chapter 7 he instructed us to look for bone landmarks on the human figure.  Currently I am on chapter 8, teaching basic anatomy.  There are 12 videos in this series and am looking forward to completing it.  As Glenn Vilppu says, "there are no rules in art, only tools."  Enjoy!