Hi, I always enjoy seeing someone practice gesture since I have been trying to improve my understanding of it for a while now as well. I believe to see a couple of difficulties I had too, so I will jump right in! (The amount of text is proportional to the amount of encouragement I'm trying to convey - not the amount of mistakes). First, what I learned is, that gesture is not equal to figure drawing as a whole or to drawing things that look nice necessarily. Gesture drawing is concerned with what is going on, not only based on the visible shapes, but also movement wise, regarding force, weight and balance or even emotionally, with what the person intends to do. This is also why there are a lot of different attempts to capturing gesture. While Proko tries to make gesture look clean to some degree, leading to it being closer to a figure drawing, other artists are not at all concerned with that. I recommend looking at different strategies and trying them out. Personally, working through the first 30 pages of Nicolaides "The natural way to draw" helped me immensly in understanding gesture as an independet part of the figure drawing process. You can find the complete text online. Alphonso Dunn sums up this "looseness" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvjB0rj6yAc&t=328s . Just add it to the list of Lea. Some remarks which are more on the sympomatic, less important side: Spending 5 minutes on each gesture drawing is quite long. I would recommend some timed practice with 30s - 2m. You might find, that this is not enough time to put everything in the picture, which is just what one wants, because clothes and objects do not belong in a gestural drawing, unless they help you convey the point. As an example, I think it worked out in picture 3 while you could have achieved a more gestural representation by trying to see the motion through the clothes in picture 4. Well this got a bit lengthy. Sorry! Good luck!