Hello!
I hope you've been enjoying your art journey so far. Your sketches are looking very good so far for someone who's started within a year, great job!
My feedback is I think you're somewhat caught between whether to try and draw the figures accurately or whether to go for pure gestures. Gestures can be a lot looser than how you have drawn your figures so far, and also tend to use long, confident lines vs lots of little ones. The lots of little lines is a classic thing nearly everyone does when they're starting out, so don't worry! There are about a billion exercises online for line confidence, the Draw a Box website covers it within the first few lessons and they are free, so you could give that a go if you want to specifically improve on that. There are also a lot of Youtube videos, lots of people like Proko's. In my case, the best way I found was actually to get a book called 'Watercolor Workbook 2' by Sarah Simon and very patiently line over her illustrations in ink giving every line a single pass where it was physically possible, but I like painting too so I doubt this would be much use to you. Everyone has their method. But honestly, give it enough time and you'll usually just stop doing it by yourself even without really thinking about it, so if the thought of doing Draw a Box makes you want to cry, don't force yourself to do something you really don't enjoy!
However, the question is are you trying to get 'movement' in your drawings, or do you want to capture them accurately? These are often two separate goals at the start, though eventually will combine when you get enough practice. If you want movement, practice your long, confident lines, and also experimenting with what happens when you to capture the figure in as few lines as possible. Try not to worry so much about whether the proportions are accurate, so much as whether the pose is readable and interesting to look at. These kind of drawings suit the very quick 30 second timers, or better 1/2 mins in the class mode of Line of Action, because there really is not time to get an accurate drawing down, but you definitely can get some dynamic figures down in that time. This was one of the best videos I've seen that explains the concept of gesture drawing: https://youtu.be/vWreMdXAn6Q
For accuracy, since you are drawing digitally, one of the best things you can do is draw the pose exactly as you have done in your examples, and then use your drawing tool to layer your sketch on top of the photo (sized roughly to your drawing) that you were referencing. You will see very quickly where things have gone awry. But do not panic if everything has 'gone wrong'! When I first started to do this, I couldn't believe how far off some of my drawings seemed to be from the photo. Do it enough, and firstly you'll get a real sense of how the body is shaped, and then you'll also notice where you always tend to get caught out. In my case, I always put my ribcage guide oval and hips way too far apart, so my figures tend to have very elongated waists! I only do this trick with layering the sketch on top sparingly, because I am not aiming for totally accurate, photo-realistic drawings, I am aiming for 'good enough' for a painterly style. It is incredibly difficult if not almost impossible to get proportions from an un-traced drawing 100% accurate to a photo or life drawing without tooling (more below), so don't let yourself get hung up on that. You are just trying to develop an eye for putting things down as they are rather than what your brain thinks they should be. Accurate drawings in general also tend to take a longer time (sometimes significantly longer) than gesture drawings and will usually look more 'stiff' at the start of learning. Eventually, you can combine the two gloriously together.
If accuracy is extremely important in the future (for example, capturing a likeness) or you just really like doing very accurate drawings, do not be afraid of using things like grids (something you can often switch on top in digital tooling and make your own physical ones/buy them if you are working from life), the old plumb and line to capture angles, and even the humble pencil can all be used to 'measure' from life or from a photo to get accurate proportions. These are tools we have used for centuries in art, they are not 'cheating', despite what some people may tell you. See the following links for explanations:
https://www.art-is-fun.com/grid-method - grids
https://www.sightsize.com/the-only-cure-for-measuring/ - plumb line
https://www.drawinghowtodraw.com/stepbystepdrawinglessons/2010/01/how-to-find-measurements-proportions-and-angles-to-draw-with-pencil-thumb-method/ - pencil
I hope this was helpful to you. Regardless, your drawings are a really good start and I'd love for you to continue!
Avis Cantrix
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