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Sharon and Chris offer excellent advice, as always.
I would re-iterate and clarify their points as follows:
1. Turn off your flash whenever you photograph something or someone you want to draw.
2. When drawing from a live person or real object in front of you, use a single strong source of light, (but not from the front, the way the flash is on your camera). For example, put an egg or two on the table, as Sharon suggested. Then set a desk lamp at a 45 degree angle to the subject so you have a single strong source of light, giving some form to whatever it is you're looking at.
Once you have something to work from that is actually lighted to show form and volume (and not just line) you'll find it a hundred times easier to represent that form on paper.
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