/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2198290
I guess nobody told you. Gesture is not contour. The entire point of gesture is to represent force, motion, balance and pose. It's meant to be ~mostly~ abstract. Unless you're an already a competent artist you can't start figures with contour or it'll look stiff, like yours.

So yeah, you've basically just done two minute contours, not two minute gestures. There are as many ways to do gestures as there are artists, so I'll let you look into that yourself and give the different methods a try, but the one way NOT to do gesture is via contour drawing.

My one piece of advice is put your strokes down quicker [they'll be more loose, fluid and smooth] and you should practice economy of line. Since you're working digitally, you have the benefit of undoing and erasing without degrading the image. So fucking use it! If you miss a line, don't just go over it 5 more times and muddy it up. Clear that line and do it again. You won't get better if you don't hold yourself accountable for these things. Lastly, exaggerate a bit. The liveliness of gesture can be lost in details as you continue your figure drawing, so by exaggerating everything a bit you help some of that vitality survive the process through the end.