Hey! Great effort! I would say to be more deliberate with your lines. You seem to be going over the line a couple times, because you're unsure-- the line especially in a gesture is not the thing in itself. It's the flow. Generally, just let your brush stroke move. Loosen your grip on the pencil, don't press too hard on the paper, and capture the energy of the stroke. Imagine it moving. This is a gesture so we as artists and viewer should see the energy of its movement popping off the page. Not just in gesture, but in any drawing, going over the line kills the dynamic line strokes that you'd want to evoke. Be deliberate. Hope this helps!

Hi Finn! Good studies so far. I can see you're looking for the main line of action. Nice work! It's a good idea to limit the time for gesture exercise to keep us from getting focused on the contours of the body. We don't want to be thinking about contours but rather looking for the flow and gesture. This means we will draw through the forms of some muscles (skipping right past them) for the sake of the gesture and the exercise of looking for the flow and rhythm in the pose. You're doing great so far. I like 2 minutes poses the best for gesture exercises. If you only get the head indicated with a circle, the main action line and a leg in the two minutes then that's fine. You'll get faster as you practice. Marshall says that these gesture exercises are not meant to be looked at as a drawing but simply an important exercise to build the armature (kind of like in sculpture) and capture the feel of the pose (gesture and flow). No need to be concerned with the surface of the forms in this exercise. Later on in other figure work you will add those onto this armature gesture foundation. I can see some good body language and feeling in your studies here already. Look for opportunities where you can treat the torso flow and leg flow all in one shape if possible. Depends on the pose but often times its there and works beautifully in creating flow in the gesture. Use the CSI curves idea Stan teaches. It works great. Doing these as gesture practice makes our full figure drawings look so much more dynamic and expressive. Keep them coming! Hope that helps!