2 min gestures

Hi, im looking for some feedback on these gestures, i think these came out alright but im not sure of h0ow i can improve on the flow and porportions.
https://imgur.com/a/y36M15O

Great work, the most I could say is watching out for the proportions of the head, it sometimes feels too small/big for the body depending on the perspective.

Great work, the most I could say is watching out for the proportions of the head, it sometimes feels too small/big for the body depending on the perspective.

Hi Kami Tez.

I like your drawings, but the best thing about them is not coming through, let me explain. 
If we take the drawing on the top left as an example. The left leg shows some nice promising gesture (I'm not talking about the contour lines but the flowing lines that outline the front of the leg all the way from the hip to the foot.) But the lines are so thin and faint that they almost doesn't show up. How could you strengthen this quality of your drawing? I think a different line quality might be very good for your drawings. My guess is that you are not using a soft enough pencil and that you are holding it like you would if you were writing instead of the under hand grip. Take a look at a Proko . See how he is holding his pencil? With a softer pencil and holding it this way it's much easier to see and to understand gesture and shape. Try it.

Good luck

I would try to complete those contour ellipses whenever you do them:  otherwise the danger is that they stop sharp, more like a parenthesis or half-moon than half an ellipse, at which point they can lose their purpose as a roadmap for the spatial form.

One thing that I found really useful when doing these gesture drawings is to deliberately not care about the silhouette, and just indicate bits of it here and there, e.g. with where the cross-contours start and end. 

It really helps me to think of it as taking notes in shorthand, as if I'm putting down the least amount of information required to be able to reconstruct the pose later once the model is gone.  I can piece together the anatomy later if I leave it out, but not the scaffolding of where the knees and elbows are, what the motion is, what the perspective is, etc.

Thought of one more thing:  please correct me if I'm wrong, but I can see Michael Hampton's approach to gesture in your drawings.  

Which is great, he's an amazing educator, but one thing I had to add to his method when I was working with it was to find the joint before putting down the gesture curve going towards it.

So I put a dot at the pit of the neck and the curve of the spine before pulling the thoracic spine curve between them (not necessarily connected to the dots!), I indicate the shoulder joints before doing those curves, I always, always mark the elbows, knees, wrists and ankles, etc.

Michael Hampton doesn't need it because he's been teaching anatomy for 20 years, and he knows where his lines will end, but for me, getting correctly foreshortened limbs and torso just takes way more time otherwise.