Love/Hate Relationships With Figures

I continue to have a love/hate relationship with figure painting. It is difficult. It is stressful because of the time constraints and decision making. Yet,  all of this makes you a better painter.  You have to successfully draw and describe foreshortening.You must learn to organize the values and shapes.  You have to know a form shadow from a cast shadow. You have to decide what is the best brush stroke to show a plane or cylinder. There is so much more... Sounds like plein air, doesn't it?
Here are two of my figure studies.