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id reccomend watching some mattessi or getting his book for gesture, its incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fusT-dwVE

right now i think youre just trying to draw the contours of the gesture instead of thinking  about the individual components which make the gesture; the weight and skeleton and flow of it. You seem to also draw one big line of action and try to fit everything to it, which can be a very limited mindset when youre doing this sort of drawing.

Think of the limbs as all being part of one big story, they lead into one another, they are families and relationships of energy that flow in and out of each other. it starts getting into poetry when we talk about gesture... its hard to explain in a  logical way; but yea check that out and take it one day at a time thinking about how you can tell each quick story better than the last ;)

In my opinion 30 sec gesture are all about the C S I line of action most of it is basicly the action of the spine and the head.I have my doubt that this is being actually done in 30 sec those look more like 1 min gesture.It an exercise in reduction when doing 30sec gesture not in putting the most information you can on the page in my opinion.A 1 min gesture is more about capturing full gesture: the action of limb the direction and to make the gesture as clear as possible with the remaining second.A 5min gesture is all that was said previously but more information on the  3d nature of the figure a more define contour and how the limb and the body balance to create the gesture.

I hope this was of any use and this my personal opinion so it open for debate.Don't be scared to reduce your gesture to something that more abstract in your 30sec gesture.

Thanks so much guys. So it definitely seems like I'm rushing to copy the pose- especially for only a 30sec one. What I'm getting is that I should slow down and think of the energy and weight of the action being done and not so much major contours. I'll do some more, apply this frame of mind and post updates! Again very much appreciated.
Also started watching Mattesi's vid series- thanks for the link :) Directional and applied force in a shape/gesture is new to me but super fascinating. Really liking the idea of there being "momentum" lending itself to balance and rhythm. Around 9min in at part2 is particularly blowing my mind ahah. Seems like a more abstract and emotional way of thinking of things, sorta like u were saying darktiste.

Anyways, here's a painting from the other night. Working on shape design + design in general. Spent more time than usual researching outfits and resolving the designs of things during sketching phase rather than letting it bite me in the butt later on while painting lol. Definitely something I'm learning to incorporate in my workflow more. Can't always jump into the fun painting part right off the bat huh xD better to learn the hard way than no way haha.
+wip. Gonna give turtle a mask lmao