Hi Ladislas,
Sorry I'm answering you so long after your post, but I recently rediscovered this site and only just now registered. It looks like this forum is a little dead but I'm hoping maybe we can breath some life into it?!
I think you've done some really nice gesture work here. Particularly the first batch listed above; the drawings have a good sense of flow and that's what you really want to focus on when doing gesture. Don't worry so much on the shape of the body or the individual parts. Try to capture the underlying flow (or gesture!) of the pose. One thing that I think will help is to try to avoid using a lot of broken, sketchy lines. Try to get the whole pose in as few, unbroken lines as possible. If the model is in a pose where she is lunging forward with her left arm outstretched in front of her and her right leg thrust back behind her, you could capture the essence of that pose in one, unbroken gestural line from the tip of her left index finger to the tip of her right big toe. If you want to go back and restate or correct a part of a line, that's fine but make sure that the your correction line is solid, directional, and flowing with the gesture. It's really, really hard to capture gesture with a sketchy line. Do worry if it doesn't look like a body, or if it's not a recognizable drawing. that's not what gesture is about. I can speak with some authority here because I've done thousands for gesture drawings, and these are still things that I struggle with!
Here are some exercises you can try:
- Do 30 second poses but do 6 drawings for each pose. Gotta hustle!
- Try to capture the gesture of each pose with a single line
- try blind gesture (don't look are your drawing, only look at the model)
- Use charcoal on large news print. work big!
- Make big, sweeping gestures. draw from your shoulder, not your wrist
- try brush with ink
- draw with your thumb dipped in coffee or red wine
Keep gesturing and keep posting!
Best,
Erik
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