What is your biggest challenge when it comes to gesture? After one more month of practice I feel more confident in line strokes and are very pleased with those following 2 min sketches. However, feel most of the times lacking of the gesture itself. Any suggestion on how to improve it?

All right, here comes my first take on structure.

Here are some recent work on gestures; first two pictures during 2 minutes and the last one 30 sec. Would really appreciate some feed back to make sure I'm going on the right track!

Here comes my first submission on the bean. If you ever wondering why I'm using fine liner it is because I'm practicing the philosophy of drawabox.com to not hide your mistakes. So, please feel free to critique! Wish I knew for instance how to make those look more "design" according to Stan's comment in the latest bean video.

Hi, this is my first attempt at the bean exercise. These were made on random images from the Proko pose sets after first practicing 'befores and afters' using the assignment example videos. I've learnt a lot from the videos. What I found the most difficult, is that for some tilt and lean poses it's very subtle to see whether the hip oval should be in front or after the rib oval. I also tried to include some line weight variation into it as well to make the forms speak a bit more. I included image numbers from the Proko Pose Sets I used to draw from (Aaron, Chanon, Mallory, Marcia, Veronica & Yoni). Thanks for taking the time to look at these and post your critques!

So I've been trying these for a few weeks now, I'd like to go on to the bean but hopefully I can have some feedback before. These are just some but i've done a bunch already, tried 2 min, 30 sec, 5 lines + head, and 2 min using charcoal as sugested buy proko (you can see the darker lines) these have been particularly difficult, trying the overhand grip while drawing either on my lap or on a desk, plus trying to get the gesture right has been very challenging, and the charcoal pencil on its own is kinda hard to use, but I guess I'll get accustomed to it. Any comments, critique or feedback would be greatly appreciated!!

Aight fellow artists, glad that I took the leap for this course! Think I’m now ready for some first useful advice on how to improve the gesture drawings. These are the latest attempts among my two weeks practicing 1 hour per day that I aim to be a new habit of mine. Found a flow with the strokes with fewer lines, somehow a sense with the proportion but are struggling how to do the S and C shapes for arms and legs, especially in straight position.  Accordingly to Stan and Marshalls reaction in the critiq video I understand that Lyrainas sketches is the pro level with extra details. I am therefore wondering if there is any “good enough” drawings available so you know when to move forward with the bean, or for that part any of the other steps? P.S. Being able to land an education in art fundamentals is my current so to say long term goal (, thereafter concept/fine art). This is simply the first step to uncover the basics from professionals. So, beside Stan’s anatomy and portrait courses what else is there you should learn about and which online resources is the best? See you in further posts :)