The non detailed 30 seconds look great, it would be nice to have more of them, but I can see clearly what the poses are supposed to be! Keep up the good work!

Looking good for me! I feel that in some of those you drawed more contour than gesture. For example the pose that is holding both hands and rounding the back, from the neck to the knee could be a single line, the ass bumping breaks the motion for me. However, good work overall! Keep up the good work :)

Those look great. Can you give any tips? My poses still look extremely stiff. No idea what I'm doing wrong.

I like your 3rd drawing best. It is the one with the most flow. Keep it up!

These are really good! I think Proko's video on line quality would help you! Good Luck!

These are very clean! If I had one critique it would be some are too clean! some lines appear to be very straight, like the one in the top left corner. Try and make your figures look a little more cylindrical. Other than that I think the gestures are amazing! Keep it up!

Hi @yash singh, nice studies. - I would practice finding the centerline running through the forms (watch the first minute of How to Draw Gesture). The contours of the figure will support and bend with this centerline. A main issue I see in your drawings is that the contours drawn aren't designed around the centerline; you have many bumps in the contour that hurt the flow. - I would try to look more for rhythms in the pose; a line curving one way is followed by a curve going the other way. This back n forth rhythm leads the eye through the pose and helps with creating a feeling of movement. Glenn Vilppu explains it in the beginning of this video Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu. His process explanation at timestamp 21:00 is great too! Starting with a flow, then fleshing out with volumes. You might also appreciate checking out Mike Mattesi's force drawing series Improving Line Quality and Rhythm – FORCE Series Part 1 Drawing Gestural Forms – FORCE Series Part 2 How to Draw Dynamic Shapes – FORCE Series Part 3 - Have you heard about the Drawing Basics course? I think you would really enjoy taking it :) I think it will give you a broad and solid foundation. Hope this helps :)

Nice flow in your linework

Something that has helped me in keeping my proportions (sort of) right is to draw one big overarcing action line and then drawing two lines indicating the shoulderline and the waist. This roughly halves my action line (since leg length is about half the body length).

Hello, my critique is to draw darker/take better pictures. Without zooming in, the paper looks blank and doesn't lend itself to comment without effort on our end. From what I can see, they look pretty good, and I'd challenge you to do different times (I assume these are around 2 mins, so try 30 seconds, 5 mins?).

Hi, these actually look fine and I'm sure you will improve over time with practice. For now I would say work on line confidence, (pre) visualize where your line is gonna be and ghost it in before you actually put a line down. you'll end up with a few lines that look better instead of 10 lines that make it look messy.

These look quite good. Some look a bit stiff on the last page but I'm guessing those were your warmups. I see some of the same mistakes I have made from in the past, such as drawing lines to indicate the direction of the legs and arms before drawing a contour around the shapes. I think that what helped me improve in that regard was to focus on the rhythm as a whole instead of trying to make construction lines to indicate direction. I have seen other artists use very blunt drawing tools such as a brush or marker to force them to draw the gesture and not to focus on reproducing the lines and what you see in the reference too much. When you see it like this, the whole limb becomes an 'I', 'S', or 'C' shape. Reduce everything to those 3 shapes.

In that first page of gestures, I can really see the form. You are good at this!

Hi @herbicidal , these are looking great! Nice job on proportions! On the last page of 2-minute poses, I notice something in these drawings that I see a lot in my own--when I go to draw a line, say the outside edge of a calf, I draw the line several times in order to get it just right. But I think this causes the drawing to look a little too messy; and for me, it wastes part of the precious 2 minutes. May I suggest trying to draw a line and "commit" to it, even if it isn't perfect. May I also recommend curving the neck more to follow the gesture of the rest of the body. This is just my two cents. But otherwise, nice work--it looks like you're really capturing those long curvy gesture lines!