Welcome :) It definitely looks like you're grasping the idea of gesture here. Your drawings have really great flow. You have a knack for gesture it seems like. I think an area you can work on is getting more control over your use of line. Sketchy lines are great for gesture drawing and encouraged so you stay loose, but in some moments here it feels like you lost direction a bit and compensated with repetitive lines. Try to stay very conscious and intentional with the lines that you use and start out lightly so you can build up the lines that are correct and let the irrelevant ones fade away. Really great job with these @blueeyedtiger12! I'm looking forward to seeing more :)

Looks great! Keep posting - I'd like to see your progress

Nice fluid lines - looks good! Full of movement

Looks good! Great work.

these drawings are about 2-3 min each

I can see the improvements already! Your drawings on the second page have more form and flow. It looks like you’re learning exactly what you need to. 1-3 minute drawings are great practice to loosen up your hand and get your mind working right. When you start getting into 5-10 minute poses, you will start to consider anatomy and lighting more. All gesture drawing is good practice. Draw whatever you like more to keep up your consistency. Any quicksketch practice over a long period of time will yield results. Nice work! Keep it up!

Hi @Abigail G., nice drawings! I'll do my best to help you further :) - It would help me to know what your art goal is. What type of work do you want to create? Do you have any examples of artists who does that type of work? - With drawing you communicate ideas. In your next attempt of the shorter poses try to make sure that the idea of the gesture (the action) is completed. In many of your drawings (image 4 for example), you have started to add details before the gesture has been communicated, making the drawings hard to decipher. -To me it has been very helpful to keep this line in mind: "Do one thing at a time". So I might start my figure drawing by focusing on the gesture. When I feel like I've said what I intended to say (the action; what the structure is doing), I might do another pass where I focus on the shapes that the figure is built of, and how they would look in the gesture I've decided on. When I've communicated the structure of the figure, I might start to think about clothing for example, and how the wrinkles in the clothing could lead the eye. The exact process wasn't the point here, but the idea of doing one thing at a time, since that creates clarity in your mind and in turn in your drawing. - I've been taught that a figure drawing needs proportion, balance and rhythm. Proportion (the structure), balance (the sense of weight) and rhythm (a flow that leads your eye through the drawing. Often one side of a part will squash and the other will stretch; all the parts of the body squashing and stretching together creates a rhythm). You need all three. I try to work on improving in all three areas and on making all three present in my drawings. You might want to try doing that too. I hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

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These are lovely, thanks for sharing. I really like the page with the two figures kneeling with the canes. If you want to get real loose try some 30 second - 1 minute poses to keep it fresh!

I think you're on the right track. Nice flowing lines here.

I think you have great drawings here. If you're feeling awkward and rusty, it could be a symptom of just not practicing enough so I recommend you make a daily practice of it! You could try doing even shorter poses, like 10 seconds, to challenge yourself to quickly find the gesture of a pose. Good luck with your practice :)

Very nice, Huy! A few of us in this class and other classes are posting in a daily thread if you want some company in making this a habit. https://www.proko.com/community/topics/daily-drawing-with-timer-challenge#k8Z.bMm We also do some live calls where we draw together. DM me if your interested in those for the times.