Hey @harrow, nice work with these. You got the right idea. You're at a good place in your practice to experiment with how far you can push your gestures. I encourage you to push until you go too far, and then reorient yourself from there having gained the knowledge of where the boundaries are. Find the line of action, which is the longest line from top of the figure to the bottom and play with the position and severity of the apex. See how emphasizing the apex of the line of action on pose 1 by pushing the torso to the right side to follow that curve can create more movement and emphasize the pinch and stretch. Hope that's helpful!

Have you watched Stan's lesson on gesture drawing? It's a very nice introduction to how to approach gesture in the figure. It's the first lesson in the figure drawing course. If you can't watch it, here's a link on the Proko YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74HR59yFZ7Y