Wow, I like it. (thumbs up)

Heyyyyy, very beautiful! :D These feel full of movement, dynamism, and life, which is what gesture is all about! As Ruth noted, one could say these aren't exactly pure gesture drawings. When I'm practicing, I too love to make semi-fleshed-out little figures like these, and I call them "enhanced gestures"; I use them as an opportunity to practice a number of things: gesture, mannequinization and anatomy, all at once. In this case, you've even used the opportunity to study measuring, proportions and line weight while you're at it. So I would assume that these right here are "enhanced gestures" as well. :) And really, when you're practicing, much of it depends on what you want to practice. If tackling a bunch of subjects at once keeps you happy and motivated, I think that's legitimate. Though on the other hand, an argument COULD be made that you'll improve more efficiently if you're more strict with your separation of concerns; then you'd be systematically training your brain to focus on just THAT one aspect of your drawing at that particular time, without getting distracted with anything else. So you wanted to really challenge yourself to get the most out of your gesture practice sessions, I would humbly suggest just exactly that: purify your gestures by doing gesture and nothing else. No prettiness, no structure, no forms and contours, no anatomical details, no nuthin'. Just flowy spaghetti people made up of CSI lines. Doing pure gestures isn't something I find very thrilling, personally; to me it's something I do out of necessity, kind of like getting in enough exercise, enough sleep, grindin' the grind on video games so I can level up and have access to all the cool stuff. So to balance the mental friction of doing pure gestures, what I try to do is this: I spend at least 1 hr of my practice time doing nothing but CSI spaghetti people. THEN, once I've done my homework I've earned my dessert, and I get to really have fun doing "enhanced gestures" till the cows come home. :) Anyways, I hope my ravings have been useful to you in some way. I'll say again that your figures are breathtakingly beautiful! <3 Awesome job!

Wow!

staggering dat ass tho