Hi! I'm by no means an expert, but I'd like to try and help. First off, I really like these. Personally, I can 'feel' the gesture, but I can also see what you mean about your issue with following the contour. For this I have two pieces of advice. First, you should try limiting the amount of time you spend on gesture drawing. If you're achieving these drawings with a 30 second timer per pose then I would say give yourself even less time, 10 to 15 seconds, and do your best to get the essential lines needed to capture the gesture- even if the result looks like a stick man. You probably only need to go that quickly enough times to train your self to simplify what you see before returning to 30sec + poses. I think the best way to stop following contour to stop giving yourself enough to to think or overthink. Second, I would advise watching this Proko video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j39NqwL7s4. It's a step-by-step video of Proko drawing gestures with explanation. What you want to do for each pose is: Step 1. Pause the video and attempt the pose yourself. Step 2. Resume the video and follow along with the example. Step 3. Go back and attempt the pose a third time on your own. Following this 3 step process when watching these examples really helped me see where I tended to make mistakes and overthink when drawing gestures. Hope this can be of help to you! Good luck with your studies!

Hey there! I think you did pretty well at capturing the twisting and leaning in a lot of the poses. However the perspective and foreshortening is inconsistent. I think if you improve the structure of your boxes that it will fix the wobbly-ness you mention. I am a beginner, but I hope what I've mentioned can help. Keep up the practice and I'm sure you'll see improvements.