Some recent 35-minute head lay-ins from class

These are awesome, @Christopher K. The ONLY thing that comes ot mind is I find myself wanting to see more tension in the line from her shoulders to her hips. Often, the movement of gestures is in the twist or turn of the torso. The contraposition (is that a word?) between the shoulders and hips. But let me qualify this feedback with "This is WAY better than I could do", but "They are great" isn't reallty helpful feedback. It feels good, for sure, but I think not really what you're looking for.

I respect the committed practice on these! It will pay off!

Looking awesome. Love the shape design

This is looking killer! One of my fav movies!!

There is really a yin and a yang to all this. The answer for me is that you're never really done studying the fundamentals, but that shouldn't stop you from making the best art you can. Andrew Loomis talked about setting aside one day for study, and I know Norman Rockwell took classes all his life. I think they recognized that mastery is illusive, and there is always a deeper understanding one can achieve. That said, I think there can be a tendency to put off tackling big art projects because we don't feel ready. That's paralysis of analysis. People who do nothing but exercises, but no finished art fall into this trap. Sure, it might not be perfect, but so what? Dive in. If it doesn't turn out great, then it was just a draft. Furthermore, great art can survive mistakes. We're living in a media culture largely built on the shoulders of Jack Kirby comics with all of their made up anatomy. Art doesn't have to be perfect to be good.

Something that has helped me push the pose is to really focus on key angles of the pose and negative shapes created within it. On the single pose breakdown you did, notice the angle of her back. In the reference it is slanting more towards the left because she is leaning her body down toward her knee. In your sketches it is a bit stiff and closer to a 90 degree angle causing her to appear to be sitting more upright. Try holding your pencil to those key angles and put them down first to give yourself a good starting point to follow. Then push that angle even further to the left to really emphasize her leaning her body down towards her knee. Don't be afraid to deviate from the reference a bit! It will take practice of course (I'm still working on it myself), but it will make your gestures and quick sketches more dynamic! Hopefully that made sense! Good luck with your practice!

These are really well done! Very dynamic

These are looking awesome!

Really love all this practice. From what I see your line is really looking rather confident to me and practice like this will only make it better and better.

Gestures are coming along nicely! Continue to simplify and push the pose as you seem to have noted yourself on the page! Great job

This looks killer! Great work

Gestures are coming along! Maybe try to push each pose a little more and really go for the movement or flow of the pose. You’re on the right track!

You’re on the right track. Loomis head is definitely harder to get down than it seems at first. I’m still trying to fully grasp it myself. Keep practicing!

Hey everyone! I'm Chris and I'm currently studying through the online/streaming program at Watts Atelier! I'm a huge movie buff (especially horror films) so a good deal of my sketches are based off movies I love! I also really like figure/gesturing drawing! My goal is to one day be a concept artist for the film or gaming industry! Here are a few of my recent works. Thanks for looking and I look forward to growing with this community!

Hello there :) my name is Zach and I'm from Australia. So cool to see so many skilled artists in here, really looking forward to getting to know everyone and their work. I think it's invaluable to be able to connect to other artists, to learn from and inspire each other. I love to draw all sorts of subject matter, usually of a more macabre nature. I mostly work traditionally and enjoy working in graphite or ink. I always find myself getting lost in doing little details and gritty textures. In the last few months I've started colouring my work digitally. So I'd love to learn all that I can from some digital artists :) Even though I've been drawing ever since I could hold a pencil, sharing my work has been a recent development (especially to an online audience). It really has been an eye opener for me, how kind and supportive other artists are. I guess we are all in the same boat Here are a few of my pieces :)

I really love the shape design and overall flow of these. Well done!

Love to see people focusing on fundamentals. I avoided them for so long and I wish I hadn't! Now I'm playing catch up myself. Keep up the great work here. You will grow much faster practicing structure and shapes first like this!

You are clearly focusing on the right things! Gesture and structure are key. Keep drawing and practicing those fundamentals the others mentioned below!