Your drawings are rather stiff and you are straightening up the poses (making them more vertical). That is very normal, but gesture practice should actually tend to over exaggerate the pose not under exaggerate. Also, if you are really doing gesture, you probably are trying to add too many details. Try doing a gesture with only a few lines focusing on the main line of action.

One quick note would be to capture the angle of the shoulders and hips. Several of these straighten out the shoulders, when the reference has the shoulders at an angle. A good practice is to hold up your pencil to check the angle of the shoulders in the reference, then compare it to your drawing

One thing to keep in mind is that your gestures are to some degree a distillation of your intuition, which gets honed as you accumulate knowledge. Keep doing them of course, but your gestures will be influenced by your study of form and anatomy so don't put those other things off while you practice this skill.

Hi, I would say maybe trying for more ample lines, rather than short strokes may help you with capturing the gesture. I felt during my own practice of this exercise that loosening up helped a lot ultimately even though a lot of my intermediate gestures ended up looking odd! Hope this helps a bit !

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!

This is a great effort. You surely seem motivated. Gesture is something difficult to grasp without some fundamentals of the body first. In my opinion you should focus first in the relationship between the torso and the hip bone. The so called "bean". You have some proko videos refering to this concept. Leave the extremities aside for this task, at least until you feel comfortable with just the core of the body : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqxPHew5bGQ hope it helps.

Hey there really nice drawings! I can see that you are tying to capture the line of action already! I think what your missing is to be more loose and focus more on the 'movement' of the pose first! You can do this by doing quick gesture drawing which is really effective for beginners since it helps to practice a lot of poses in a short amount of time!  I think you can try it by capturing the essence of a pose  Love life drawing as great videos about gesture you should check it out this is lone of the vids that i think will help you https://youtu.be/5bw3BW4Q6VM Proko's and mike mattesi video about gesture will also help you understand more about gesture https://youtu.be/IyuCq6VWVeA Hope this helps!