These look awesome, @linlikesviolins! It’s actually hard to believe that you’re a complete beginner. Loose strokes, great sense of flow. Even though 3 days is a short span of data, I’d say the most recent ones do show improvement compared to the earlier ones. Image 4 has a lot of nice sketches, but I think my favorite is the one right below the words “Day 3” in Image 5 - it clearly shows a nice design of alternating curves that let our eyes flow through the figure, and that’s pretty much what gesture is about. It’s good that you’ve decided to get your work critiqued, as it can be very helpful to your learning progress. In case you have any other questions, feel free to let me know. Keep up the good work!

Hi @cesarcarlos, nice drawings! Good feeling of movement. I like the shape design. It has nice rhythm (each line flows into the next). I made a paintover with some notes. Some things to take with you: -Enclose your shapes, so that you're clear about what you're trying to say. - Keep on exploring how you can simplify the design - Practice your linework, maybe as a daily warm-up. The Drawing Basics course has a lot of info about that. There is also this video How to Hold and Control Your Pencil. Pencil technique in short: Draw from your shoulder Be relaxed You could ghost the line you want to attempt, first (If you want to draw a curve, you can move the pen in a circular motion, where one part of the circle is the actual line) then put down the line with confidence (It's easy to panic and tense up here, but stay relaxed as if you were a line master) But don't expect accuracy; that comes with practice But I think the correct relaxed technique should be there from the start Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

I still can't quite get used to doing these on a drawing tablet

hello friend your drawing is great, i bellive by just practicing you can achieve great success, but if i could give you a few advise it would be 1-try to first draw the model pose in vid stan draws, your self ,then try to draw it again following stan step by step, then do small criticization on your drawing and then draw pose again in 2 mints if you dont like stan s gesture you can search for people that you like and study them as well 2-dont do that always to try to put 70-90% 0f your time just drawing. lastly you can start to change the gesture style ,you draw after 1000hours of learning anatomy and character design and ... so dont be so cautious about if its copying other people or that you want to be original later on, you will find you tempo and style for now just try to study.

Wow that's a great resource. Thanks.

Some of these are nice. I especially like the pose in the 7th picture. With your 30 second ones, I think the lines are too messy, perhaps try to be more confident/chill when you're drawing (I had/have the same problem and this helps me).

These are really great! I love the long lines present throughout the forms, they're really flowing nicely, which is something lots of people seem to have trouble with. Keep up the awesome work!! :)

30s drawings are really fast. From the drawing you posted it seems like you are getting stuck in the details. Stan’s videos on gesture drawing are great. There are however other approaches, you might want to explore some of the other discussions or examples of gesture drawing on YouTube, sometimes hearing it explained in a different way can help you get over focusing on detail and get a better idea of the purpose of the exercise to capture motion. Something that can help is to intentionally limit the number of lines that you use or to start with a big gesture line that captures the motion of the whole form. Another approach is “scribble drawing “ that was used in Nicolaides book “the natural way to draw” -probably YouTube or other resources where you can see this. Hope this helps.

These are great! I like how you are using line weight to emphasize certain parts of the body. I need to learn how to do this!

Hi there :) i think you should try to use more s-shaped lines. For this one try to make the curve of the hip and the upper leg as 2 curves flowing into each other. And for the knees try to give a little hint for the patella and dont lose the curve of the calves. I hope that will help a bit. Keep up !