I've definitely been ignoring proportion when drawing the figures in favor of trying to understand the flow of the figure. Not sure how I forgot about proportion completely but I'll definitely work on it now, thanks for the feedback :)
Here's what I posted my first day of gesture drawing: https://imgur.com/a/Ic2D3nR
I feel I have improved, but there still is a lot of work to be done. Any advice is appreciated: https://imgur.com/a/E6PRvCH
Also ignore the notes thats me trying to see if I can point out faults and internalize them
Yeah it was the video. I'll check out his books thanks for mentioning.