OUAN404 : Form, Flow and Force : life drawing for animation #3 (gesture)

After coming across this video on the steps to building gesture for life drawing , I realised now that I've been to stiff in my shape building , still relying mostly on squares and straight line for construction , as opposed to using the natural curves of the human body. It also, like the title suggested , is a great tip on the steps of getting poses in quick and effective, which interestingly enough ,part of it was not trying to be to real, meaning , yes you still stick to the line of the model, but with added personality and dynamism into. This is a very interesting point, as my old fine art teacher would say :" draw what you see, not what you think" , this case being an extension upon it " draw on what you think you see". Again , the point of this is to capture the pose as quickly AND effectively as possible, and is one of the key features that separate life drawing for animation and for fineart

the shape is hard and stiff , unlike the ones below