I’ve been doing quick poses casually for a couple years, but I feel like I’ve plateaued. I’m now trying to approach gesture with more structure and intention. This is my most recent set—I’d appreciate any critique, especially on areas where my flow or structure might be breaking down.

My first time doing gesture drawings, I did about 40 5m sketches and compiled a few of my favourites. I really struggled with the time constraints of 30s / 2m sketches and felt like I needed some more time. I would appreciate feedback on the attached drawings and any device on how I can speed up.

Gestures are fantastic. Every time I do them I feel like I learn something new.

I've been practicing it nearly every day for over a month. It's both fun and a little frustrating, but I can feel myself gradually getting better.

Been doing these for about a week now and seeing some improvement! would appreciate some feedback. (Excuse the lined paper, trying to use it up.)

I took quick notes and sketches while watching the lesson.

This is my first time ever attempting gesture drawing. I can't tell if I am doing this right though.. I am working on ignoring the contour and detail as much as I can and just making motion lines and trying to feel them. Do these look right for 30 second attempts? I'm just trying to make sure I'm getting the principals that are being taught here.

I tried with some 30 second poses, and some 2 minute ones too. I've always struggled with gesture, so I'm hoping I can turn it into a strength!

This is my first ever drawing course, started two weeks ago. I'm having a fun but hard time with gesture – especially, I guess, distinguishing between contour and actual gesture. Not sure if I'm grasping the concept sufficiently to move on to the bean... Would love some suggestions on how to improve!

Hello! Here are my gesture drawing submissions. I would really appreciate some feedback as I want to improve. Thank you!

Thanks yo, I am doing this course until you post next video on basics one and also I am bored with shapes so I’ll continue that later. These were done with video. Amazing video amazing knowledge.

30s and 2min

These are 30s homework, I do not know how to progress, 2min homework, I always used to pay attention to the outline, otherwise I can not draw the curve of the body, hope someone can give me some advice

Hey all. I started the course yesterday and thought I'd share my first 4 attempts at gesture drawing (something I'd never been great at) because I think you can see the influence of the lessons as I progress. The first one was completed (as suggested) before watching the instruction video, the three that follow are after watching this video. These are a selection of my favourite drawings from each session, there were about 40-50 each in total. I included the same one twice by accident on the fourth so ignore that!

This is my first attempt at 2 minute gesture drawings. I overestimated that 2 minutes is long enough but yeah, hopefully I am starting to understand the gesture lessons.

I´m frustrated and actually I wanted to complain that I´m not getting better. But I do. 1 week of practice on Jan. 4th = 3rd pic. Yesterday = 1st pic Today = 2nd pic For today I rewatched a part of the video. Drawing through and making more accurate lines was the idea. But then the two minutes aren´t nearly enough. The practice before incl. yesterday was always quite hectical. Should I increase the timer to 5 minutes for the time being? Edit: Also, at what level or time should I proceed with the other techniques in this course? I feel like I should "master" my gestures first but advancing too soon might be not good as well. Suggestions?

Day 1-3 of gesture drawing. This is my 3rd time attempting this class, but I'm striving hard not quit this time. On Day 1, I used the same poses as Proko. I also followed along with Rams comics gesture drawings, which are the Iron Manesque drawings at the bottom. I think my favorite drawings though were the ones I did at the end of the day. I didn't care anymore if it looked good and did quick gestural drawings (normally I send several minutes on a single gesture) and neck anatomy studies based off a video. Day 2: I just did the bean and gesture drawings. I used the Proko video to correct my gestures after I first attempted them on my own. Day 3: More gesture drawings. At the end of the day, I did a more detailed rendering of the neck anatomy study from Day 1. I also tried to examine the angles/relationship between the neck and the collar bones. Then, I just did body (trunk) studies from imagination just to test how much I recalled. The placement and position of breasts still confuses me, but honestly, those end-of-day freeform studies encourage me to keep going after the disastrous gesture drawings make me question if I have any skill at all lol.

Doing two-minute poses then going back and trying to re-do them with how Proko suggested in pink ink. Feel like I'm focusing too much on form and contour and not as much on the motion. Any tips on how to improve?