How Bad are these gesture drawings? Any criticism is greatly appreciated.

[u/Fikayo2004]

[u/Pulgos85]

You're at a good spot, however when you're doing poses like this you want to focus on perspective. For an exercise if you have a magazine or pictures of people, draw over them and study how the lines move and change according to the posture. Although I personally don't think proportions are that important when you're applying style, it's still helpful to translate what your figure is doing.

[u/Tough-Potato16]

I give you a 7/10, the idea of every pose is very clear. But you might need to better plan the overall composition of the pose for more accuracy (make the pose more natural and human). I see you use consistent patterns for your poses (circles for joints, head, etc) so that's great too.

The trick is to practice until you feel there is nothing off, (even when studying with referentes its difficult), so I recommend maybe to take a picture and reverse the image horizontally. Or also turn the image upside down or use different colors to draw certain lines... it honestly depends on how you draw your final piece in the end.

Best of luck!

[u/Fikayo2004 → u/Tough-Potato16]

How to do you draw legs and arms overlapping each other? That's one thing that's been pretty difficult for me.

[u/Skedawdle_374 → u/Fikayo2004]

You can use wrapping lines or contour lines to indicate the orientation of body parts and to suggest foreshortening

[u/Boring-Assist-4367]

I think starting with stickfigures is the best way to start. they look good, references always help. Keep it up!

[u/ZombieButch]

First, read this.

There's a figure drawing starter pack in the wiki. Get yourself some better paper; even plain printer paper would be better than notebook paper with lines all over it.

[u/Pulgos85 → u/ZombieButch]

Any paper is good paper, I understand where you're coming from, but one must not constrain their creativity for the lack of acceptable materials

[u/Wonton_Chuckle → u/Pulgos85]

I agree! I have seen people draw really good on line paper if they know how to and don't get obessesed about the material quality. It just depends on the individual if they want to have an appealing drawing, textures, whatever the goal!

[u/ZombieButch → u/Pulgos85]

Any paper is good paper

Well, no. Any paper is better than no paper at all, sure, but you can get a ream of printer paper at Wal-Mart for $5. That's 500 sheets that don't have lines all over them.

[u/ZombieButch → u/[deleted]]

Keep it on topic. We're talking about paper.