Caricaturing exercise- reference gesture sketches

my sketches of some more interesting and less obvious poses, gestures and mannerisms I observed; I also tried to caricature models' facial features and perhaps personalities, and I'm quite happy with the result

Body mechanics exercises- sketches

rough key poses for three animation exercises- throwing, hitting and jumping- animated later;
when sketching, I found the jumping sequence the most difficult to key, actually, while other two turned out quite satisfying