As mentioned in gesture basics 1 Its quite difficult to get the direction if various gesture lines without being thrown off by the contours, eg the neck. Did an experiment of setting up the pose with Proko's Skelly app and I think it might help to initially get a feeling for those basic volumetric forms (without muscle contours) in my head. Not a substitute for real figures but I think it's helped my understanding of anatomy a bit. Just need to get all this down to 15 lines!

Lesson from this exercise. Do hundreds of these.

Lesson from this exercise. Missed the tilt of the head so that would make it alternate fron the rib cage. Lines at the top of the rib cage close the form and don't flow into the deltoid curve.

Lesson from this exercise. Fewer lines on stretched out parts, limbs etc to keep eyes moving quicker. Lighter lines on cross contours.

Michael, this additional content is so great thank you. Needless to say that any future courses you add to this site will be a instant day 1 purchase for me.

Watched the lesson then had a go at these by myself afterwards, Still have problems with gesture, I know it's just an aide for the latter part of the drawing, but they can be things of beauty by themselves, and mine aren't! Feel a bit more comfortable when 3D comes in and can see that they put me on the way to a final drawing, although not sure how I would lose all the pencil construction lines. We will need another course from Michael on how to progress our drawings from this stage, and a course on producing pretty gesture drawings!

Had a go at the side view. The more I do the more I understand the process but I don't think I am getting the most from the gestural stage at the moment.

Started this figure on the Step By Step lesson which talked about the shoulder girdle but quickly got into a mess with the foreshortening as shown by my 1st attempt. Skipped forward to this lesson and after doing the exercises I breathed a huge sigh of relief that there was an alternative approach for foreshortened figures and had another go, which was better. The big thing I did wrong was I tried to maintain the asymmetry between the chest and pelvis which doesn’t work on this pose and looks wrong, although Michael somehow always makes it work on every pose! 

Found this really difficult. With my first effort I noticed that the box of the torso wasn't twisted enough. so had another go to fix it but then didn't take enough care with the orientation of the limbs. What confuses me about the gesture is that some of the lines seem match the contours e.g. the head and the neck and the pelvis, whereas with the legs for example the femur gives the gesture which is in the middle of the form. Then the calf goes back to contour?

My Level 1 assignment. Somewhat messy pencil lines but I think I understand the structure of hands more now.

Such a clear explanation of proportions, thank you, really great. At the end of the video you said you were going to go through a simple explanation of where the arm and leg landmarks sit. Is that in another video?

Someone suggested doing these in ink as it encourages you to commit to your lines. So tried ball point pen, and it certainly ups the drawing jeopardy, lots of mistakes on show but such a great exercise, thank you.

Had another go, drawing the boxes with the right orientation is so difficult. Maybe Stan can tell us how do you find the horizon line when the subject is so close? For picture 6 I took the box example from the video as a guide, which has the horizon somewhere in the middle of his face. But in the photo I think I can see the top of his head so shouldm't the horizon be above the head?

Level 1 & 2 exercises. It was difficult to work out the angle of the boxes without a horizon line, even though intuitively it should be logical and straightforward. It helped to start of with "can I see the top of the head, or can I see under the chin". The marks got very messy as I was hunting for the lines. Tried adding shading to the last one but found it didn't support the perspective.

Amazing exciting demo and I love your book. Thank you Michael.