Hi Stu!
I've been looking through your examples and I think you did a great job capturing motion. I concur with Chris, avoid s-shapes more.
Your gestures are also a bit on the crowded side. There are so many lines happening, but I feel like half of them are there for no reason and just clutter the figure. Sometimes it's hard to see what the pose is, which defeats the purpose of gestures.
https://wordslye.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/dsc03319.jpg?w=1024&h=768
When I see this image, my first response is a frown because it's hard to make out what is happening. I don't recognize the top right gesture as being a person, and the bottom right one reminds me of a stickfigure holding a chainsaw.
Can you explain what you were trying to achieve in these? What are we supposed to see?
Remember that gestures are there to help you get a feeling for motion *and* proportions. It doesn't feel like you're trying to draw a figure at all, and if what you get doesn't look like a person, it's really hard to build on this foundation to create a realistic looking drawn person.
I strongly recommend breaking a gesture down into the following parts:
1. Draw the line of motion.
2. Add a shape for the head, torso and hips, preferably like shown in our guide https://line-of-action.com/gesture-basics-2-torso-and-hips/
3. Add reference points for the joints
4. Add limbs from these joints.
That's it. Try to avoid scribbling in more details and lines, but focus on the form and shape of the model you're drawing instead. Try to avoid drawing cartoonized silhouettes or shape muscles, stick to 'stickfigure' basics.
Stylization is the step that happens after you've grasped the basics. :)
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