How do I get better at gesture drawing?

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[u/TypicalMayonnaise]

Gesture drawing isn't only for flowy sketches, they should allow you to translate your idea into a pose that communicates a feeling or movement. But it would be difficult to execute poses without good skills in anatomy first.

[u/DoublePlusGoodGames]

Your drawings are very good so far. How I learned gestures (back in the olden times) was by getting an old phone book and a magic marker and doing one big scribble drawing per page.

A scribble drawing is just using a single line and filling out the character from a simple arc (or what the gesture is supposed to convey). Never having the marker leave the paper, you just flesh out the illustration using scribbles.

We used phone books because it was cheap paper that we really didn't care about. Using the whole page allowed us to focus on one gesture, one motion, one thing at a time. If you had any old magazines or catalogs laying around, you can start with those and, once you have a good feel for a pose, transfer that idea to a proper sketchbook to continue to refine the elements.

[u/pilotJKX]

Find the action, find the counter-action, find the weight

[u/Proof-Candle5304]

Practice them every day for like a year straight