Hey, @JAMES G, these look really good! Nice flow, clear read, enough simplification. You’re definitely on track with gesture, great job! I have a suggestion, but I don’t know if it’s necessarily “something you should do to improve” - I think it’s more like just a subjective point of view that I’d like to share and that maybe you could find useful in some way. Personally, when I want to focus on gesture, I usually don’t think too much about form or construction, I try to think mostly of an abstract idea of movement and flow. Sometimes, I'll use cross-controus moderately if they help clarify the pose, but, mainly, I tend to let go of the idea that the body parts are solid and, instead, I envision as if they were made of “pure energy” - I find this helps me push the idea of gesture, motion and force to its maximum. I’m attaching a couple of gesture sketches I’ve done in the past to help illustrate what I mean. In your gesture drawings, I can see you’re using plenty of cross-contours and even occasional boxes and cylinders, which leads me to believe that you’re considering form, too, as you work on the gestures. And I think that’s not a problem at all - in fact, many artists tend to blend gesture and construction together when sketching. Your sketches still look concise and fluid, so, as long as thinking of form doesn’t hurt thinking of the gesture, it’s fine. But, just in case, perhaps you might find it useful to know that it’s also okay to “ignore” a bit more of the construction aspect of the drawing when you want to focus mainly on gesture. As I mentioned before, I think this is not something you “should do to improve”, it’s just a possibility I notice. Hope this helps!