@Rich
I think it's important that after you've done the quick gestural, to also try to develop some " muscle memory " and by that I mean, lines that become second nature in drawing figures or anything after drawing them several times. I've tried to do that here by doing a smaller study AFTER drawing a 3 minute gestural.
The reason for doing this is, you're breaking down the lines into more data by drawing them over and over, by studying the figure, and making a close up. When you go back to drawing figures in this same pose, you'll remember both. The gestural drawings you made to capture that kind of pose AND the study you did to give your brain an in depth idea of what lines would make up a larger drawing.
Combine that and see how you draw this figure over... you will be able to over simplify, because you know the lines to cover, and your drawing will have more uniformity, because you've blocked out composition on a larger scale.
I only drew what I considered to be the hardest part of this piece, that weird arm, I could have faked it with my own knowledge of anatomy, but I wanted to try it only from your image, which I blew up even though it was incredibly blurry. And since it was, I only had the most rudimentary of details to pull from.
Try this out and see if it helps,
- draw your normal gestural for 1 minute, then 2 then 3 minutes from a source pic.
- draw a study of the area you found hardest to compensate for, with an enlarged pic, concentrating on the building block lines, and the
shadow areas to give it form. - Now redraw the figure again at normal size, with the memory of both the gesture and the study in your head.
And if you can find a new pic with the same pose, draw that instead. I think you'll find your final piece to be more successful. Good luck!