Hi andypandi. I like that you are thinking about your intent very clearly in these drawings and doing lots of iterations to try to learn from previous attempts. The limbs and torso in all of these drawings have a dynamic curviness to them which gives the figure life and personality so that's great to see. I think that thinking of the gesture in a 3 dimensional sense, as well as a 2 dimensional sense, might open up some more useful options for exaggeration. For example, the way you have the torso leaning back extra far to the viewer's right changes the physical balance of the figure quite a bit from how it is in the reference. An alternative or additional option would be to indicate or exaggerate more heavily the way that the torso is tilting back toward the viewer in space. I also think the twist is an important part of this pose. You showed this a little bit with the rhythms of the chest in some of your drawings but I think emphasizing it more with overlaps as I did in my draw-over might be a good idea. It seems like these drawings are mostly focused on gesture so rhythms and flow are more important at this stage than structure but having some awareness of the simplified volumes of the body and their position in space in a given reference might help you design the gesture in a way that supports the balance and architectural integrity of the figure more.