beautiful study! very cool

we'd love to see it. Maybe next time!

I like drawing very lightly then making another pass and darken or fix the lines. The first pass lines are so light and easy to erase or cover if doing a fully rendered drawing. I can't see your drawing clearly in photo but it looks pretty light. That's good and as dexterity increases with practice you'll be drawing with more and more control. Until then best to relax the grip on pencil to avoid making lines you can't erase if need to adjust later. Hope that made sense. Good work!

Hard to see in photos but looks like you got the C curve for the top medial corner of the scapula down well. I think the W shape of the tail end of the trapezius could be a bit lower down the back. Good work and hope that helps

These look great! I love the foreshortened lower leg in the first figure. Sorry I don't have a critique for you. Solid work on landmarks!

Good work on the studies. It's difficult to see in these pics but I think I can still critique. Thinking about the CSI lines try to find places that the S curve will take the place of two C curves instead. This longer S curve will flow much better than the stop and go of two or three C curves. Keep these coming! You're doing great

I like making a down and dirty, quick comparative measurement from the far side cheek to back of jaw just in front of the ear and compair that width to length of face fom chin to brow. Often times the width will be very close to the distance from bottom of chin to brow. Sometimes it's much longer. This helps me to quickly get an understanding of the width to length of the face in the perspective of the pose. Here attached are a couple of examples and variations in the relationship of width to length. The red lines for width and length are the same length. Hope that helps!

Looking good! 30 seconds is tough man! Your doing great. I can see you are looking for the asymmetry in the limbs to push flow. That's great and keep looking for it. CSI lines can help also in such a time limit and trying to capture flow and gesture. Try to identify opportunities to draw the torso and legs as one big flowing shape. Keep up the great work! Hope that helps!

Nice drawing Michael! If you are going for the thirds of the face to be equal then I'd double check the length of the bottom third of the face (chin to nose). It looks a bit smaller that the other thirds. Otherwise solid!!

Marshall talks about trying to be emotionally empathetic to the pose the person is in. When you do gesture you empathize with the thing you are drawing. I think you are doing that really well here. I can see you are looking for the main action line also. Try to use CSI lines more in the limbs as well as that main action line. It will help the flow of the limbs. The figures may be out of proportion but that's okay with this kind of practice. Stan and Marshall talked about this in their critique video on gesture drawing. They said..You have to do it so many times that eventually your eye will start to see it. Marshall talks about how his slow-motion figure drawings helped him to learn proportions but he feels that by doing a large amount of 1 minute gesture drawing practice he moved from making proportional mistakes often to being able to have strong control over the proportions during the white knuckled 1 minute drawing sessions. Marshall “Forget about the proportions when you are doing gestures at least for the first several hundred." Great work so far and keep doing these. The work will pay off big time in long figure drawings.