I disagree with John, I think these are lovely drawings that show a great understanding of gesture and form. The carefully placed contours are proof that you know what you’re doing. Keep it up!

You did pick a hard one, but it’s brave of you to try and work it out. Once you learn the robo bean it’ll all make sense, you can even trace over the reference first. I like how @Johnathan made the torso lean back, showing more of a front plane, while still maintaining balance. It inspired me to give it a go and I had fun practicing mannequinization.

I used your first “wrong overlap” bean as an example to explain how you would go about finding the right overlap. The body may seem flat in a picture, but remember you’re looking at 3D forms. I don’t know if you’ve moved on to the next lessons, but the Robo Bean will help you understand that. Also Stan exaggerated his bean by tilting the hips up so we can clearly see that the hips are coming towards us. As for ghosting, I would suggest not overthinking it and just put down marks if you feel like it, you can always draw lightly and then erase with a kneaded eraser if you feel like the line isn’t how you wanted it.

You have a good sense of gesture and good understanding of cross contours. You might want to consider improving the proportions since your heads are small (I have the same issue) and your legs are very long, especially in the 2nd image.

I can tell that you tried hard to understand these forms, and good effort since the twist is very difficult. I would suggest drawing all the boxes with straight lines first because you’re losing the perspective in a lot of these, especially in the pelvis, in which many are impossible boxes. I’m not great at perspective either, but I tried my best to show you in the drawover. Most of your ribcage boxes are also too thin in width, only showing a sliver of a side plane, so I think it would benefit you to overlay your drawings over the reference to find the landmarks and determine the right thickness of the ribcage. Most importantly, you should consider the relationship between the ribcage and the pelvis, which follows the flow of the gesture. On the 2nd row, the 2nd robo bean from the right seems very disjointed because we see the top plane of the ribcage, yet you indicated a bottom plane for the pelvis. P.S. I saw your gesture drawings as well, and I noticed that they lacked volume. Instead of focusing on curves, think of whether you’re looking up/down on each body part and whether it is coming towards you/away from you. I recommend this video by Love Life Drawing on learning to draw gesture with angles (straight lines) to understand the body in 3D space: https://youtu.be/-TqKd2XB844

I understand completely, when I started I was drawing very stiff stick figures. It takes time to train our eyes to see the motion and draw how it feels. I think your sketches are a good start, I like that you chose dynamic poses and that you are drawing long continuous lines for the legs and torso. Although in certain sketches, you are still drawing the contours of the breasts and legs, which breaks the flow. For 30s gestures, you can disregard the hands and feet and challenge yourself to draw the pose with only 5 lines.

Love how you kept the fluid gesture of the deer while simplifying the structure.