Hi @Abigail G., nice drawings! I'll do my best to help you further :) - It would help me to know what your art goal is. What type of work do you want to create? Do you have any examples of artists who does that type of work? - With drawing you communicate ideas. In your next attempt of the shorter poses try to make sure that the idea of the gesture (the action) is completed. In many of your drawings (image 4 for example), you have started to add details before the gesture has been communicated, making the drawings hard to decipher. -To me it has been very helpful to keep this line in mind: "Do one thing at a time". So I might start my figure drawing by focusing on the gesture. When I feel like I've said what I intended to say (the action; what the structure is doing), I might do another pass where I focus on the shapes that the figure is built of, and how they would look in the gesture I've decided on. When I've communicated the structure of the figure, I might start to think about clothing for example, and how the wrinkles in the clothing could lead the eye. The exact process wasn't the point here, but the idea of doing one thing at a time, since that creates clarity in your mind and in turn in your drawing. - I've been taught that a figure drawing needs proportion, balance and rhythm. Proportion (the structure), balance (the sense of weight) and rhythm (a flow that leads your eye through the drawing. Often one side of a part will squash and the other will stretch; all the parts of the body squashing and stretching together creates a rhythm). You need all three. I try to work on improving in all three areas and on making all three present in my drawings. You might want to try doing that too. I hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!