/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I have some questions pertaining to some posts in the last thread.

>>2518860
>>2518267

Beyond the fact that I'm still getting the hang of constructing the hampton way, I'm feeling very lost on gesture. These are my attempts at >>2519996, and while I feel like these have some kind of flow to them, it still feels like there's a lot I'm not getting. In the drawing for the last thread, it came out super fucking stiff, and a big part of that was that I feel like a don't really understand how to capture the gesture of a person who isn't in a dramatic pose. The model was just standing in place so I was really lost on where I was meant to be emphasizing the curves. Also, I'm lost on whether I'm supposed to be conscious of proportion or not. A lot of people have said "Use the model and the gesture to inform your drawing, not to copy the image." However, a lot of the criticism I receive pertains to specific proportional issues. Basically, it's unclear to me how the gesture is meant to inform the final piece. If I focus too much on the gesture, the final figure looks inhuman, but if I focus on the reference, the piece comes out way too stiff.

Also the gestures I'm doing look more like weightless scribbly spaghetti people than proper gesture but I figure that mostly comes down to practice.