Figure Drawing 1 - looking at gestures.

In these exercises I was trying to capture the movement and gestures. I used pen so that I wasnt tempted to erase and just had to get on with it. Whilst thining about the gestures I considered how the various muscles across the body would be under tension in some of the poses.
I found the picture with the fan quite difficult and getting the face to look in the right direction a challenge - a cuboid frame helped.
From my sketchbook:

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3