Croquis
[croakies].. that's what we called them in art school-- sometimes half-minute, or two-minute opportunities to catch the stance of a figure- to get down what we could see about the pose in a few lines-- were the shoulders parallel to the floor, or tilted, and the hips- were the tilted the other way? Was one knee higher than the other? Which way was the neck aimed and how was the head set on the neck. Things like that are keys to getting the gesture of a figure down on paper.
The images here are various instances of this sort of study. Poses range from the thirty second kind to the two hour kind. Or even the two week kind! I will include some of my old work here and some more recent.