Mannequinisation

Hey Rosenhips! This looks like a pretty successful first attempt at Mannequinization. I can clearly see the 3d form of each individual trunk and limb.

I suspect this aspect of the exercise distracted you from paying attention to proportions, however! Although each limb looks individually fine, when taken as a whole figure, many of them look out of proportion to each other. That's okay though, it happens when you shift your focus and try something new. I would say keep working at mannequinization for a few sessions before trying to pull back and find a balance between the two exercises. :)

Like Kim has said, you have drawn the single parts pretty well, but you have some issues with keeping the proportions right between the different parts.

Some advice I can give you about that:

1)Try to study the proportion of the body with simple standing poses. You can have a better idea of the different lenghts and proportion if you use simple poses.

2)when you use dynamic poses (like those), before diving into details, contours and shapes, try to make some lines and to fix some points VERY loosely of the whole figure. Once you fixed your points of reference (like the total height of the figure, the lenght of the limbs etc.) you can start refining the drawing. It's very difficult to keep the proportions right if you go piece by piece and don't establish the correct proportions first. It will save you a lot of work and time =)

Looks like you really have a handle on fluidity and motion, even in "static" poses. Good job! I would work on ensuring the head is proportionate to the body; they look a tad bit small in these sketches

Good morning, Rosenhips, welcome aboard. I'm doing fine, how are you? Great job on your mannequins, because of how well you've articulated forces with primitive forms. But, you're forgetting the bold and powerful quality to your loose lines of action and rhythm. Why don't you please do our interactive drawing tutorial here?

The reason why?? First of all, you start off with not the fine details, but the broad strokes, and second, to make your drawings organic.

Hat's off to you.