Gesture sketches to loosen up

With life drawing classes starting up soon, I was thinking that I better get busy doing gesture sketches to loosen up.

I remember feeling rushed the last time in class, as a five minute pose can go by in a flash. This I’m sure is due to a lack of practice.

I have to start thinking of the body in terms of shapes like ( cylinders, cones, boxes, barrels, slabs, wedges, circles and eggs ) to give my drawings life.

All the sketches below were done quickly using photo reference. Not to much detail, I’m just looking to capture the pose.