@Lee
You should start with an anatomy book that focus on the muscles and not on any particular drawing styles first. Understand how the muscles provide form for the body, and where they are.
Practise life drawing or draw the people you see in the public.
Then you can go on to practice figure drawing such as those you see in the book. There's no right or wrong style. There's just believable or unbelievable style. A figure drawing can be very stylized and still look believable, e.g. Japanese anime characters that use very wide perspective.
The key point here is you need to know the basics of anatomy and figure drawing before you can find your own style.
You're supposed to copy what you see, whether from the book, or observation from life. The more you draw, the more you can draw. That's practice.
@Lee
You should start with an anatomy book that focus on the muscles and not on any particular drawing styles first. Understand how the muscles provide form for the body, and where they are.
Practise life drawing or draw the people you see in the public.
Then you can go on to practice figure drawing such as those you see in the book. There's no right or wrong style. There's just believable or unbelievable style. A figure drawing can be very stylized and still look believable, e.g. Japanese anime characters that use very wide perspective.
The key point here is you need to know the basics of anatomy and figure drawing before you can find your own style.
You're supposed to copy what you see, whether from the book, or observation from life. The more you draw, the more you can draw. That's practice.