Hey, I just wanted to give you a quick critique and some advice. Your gestures are good in the masses, meaning you have a great amount of them completely, but the best advice I can give is to try and make less scratchy lines; it shows how quick you are with them, and it's okay to get frustrated, but don't let that take control over your lines. Try to tame them and make single strokes with them even though some may not look like legs or foreshortened body parts, but it doesn't matter this early on; the objective is to be calm and loose, so try to make single BIG strokes when making the figure but besides that your centerlines look great they are there to guide you so focus on using that line to make your spacing with the whole body but yeah looks good keep the motivation.

Nice job! I like how you did multiple of each, I'll have to try that too!

I think you succeeded with your task and really managed to identify the most important flow in the figure, even though the proportions on some are very wonky (which is typical in the beginning, it's mentioned in the gesture critique video). Keep practicing, it will only get better. Good tip about using music!

That's a similar method to what I'm trying to do! I try to keep in mind what Stan said in one of the videos to try and simplify where needed to get it done in the alloted time. I took this to mean that I'm representing at least each limb, head & torso

I agree, it's so hard!

I had this same exact insight the other day, noticing that there's so much nuance in the way that Stan draws these gestures!

He does show a couple examples in his videos of torsos that don't show their center line, profile like you said or where the centerline is obscured. I noticed in these he focused more on drawing the gesture of the ribcage. One thing that I'm seeing in these is that your centerline seems like it's always in the center of the left & right torso lines, despite it being offcenter in almost all of the reference poses. Adjusting how much space is between the center line & the edges of the body can be helpful to get the perspective looking a bit more accurate.

maybe also try getting more from instead of just spaghetti, and combining that with more intentional lineweight to show force also helps a lot i think

i think the second and forth are unclear as to what direction the person is facing. i see them facing to the front of the camera, but they are not. i like your clean dynamic lines with matching proportions i lot though.

Hey Jolly! Nice job on these, you're effectively simplifying your lines and avoiding contour. Getting over trying to draw exactly every line you see is one of the most difficult parts of learning how to figure draw. So good job! What I would say is a few things: 1. Though these are successful first attempts figure drawing, I'd say these lean on the simpler side to their detriment. There's no form here to push the gesture of the pose, making them all feel very flat. What I'd recommend is watching Stan's videos Bean Assignment Examples – Foreshortening. I know these are 45 second drawings which limits the amount of stuff you can do in that time, but that being said small indications of form can go a long way. Stan's How to Draw Gesture helped me a lot with this stuff, I'd recommend that too. 2. Your drawings don't have much energy to them. Though you are capturing the general "story" of the pose, the lack of force behind your lines doesn't make it feel like they're standing in space or moving at all. To combat this, use your arm as much as you can when you draw (as opposed to your wrist). This will force you to think of the drawing as a whole, while also allowing you to put more energy into your lines. I'd recommend watching @Mike Mattesi's videos on Drawing Dynamic Figures – The FORCE Method. 3. Line follow through could use some work. This is related to both of the points above, but I'll address it more directly. You are successfully using the lines correctly, but they're missing the follow through that would take them to the next level. See the draw overs below for what I mean. In the first one, you can see I took your drawing and simplified it to two lines, a step by step, and threw in a super rough indication for the pelvis. I've also attached a diagram by @Stan Prokopenko and two 5 minute quick sketch pages by @Erik Gist.