Those other three are nice. :)

Just by looking at this, it already shows me a lot on how you sketch sideview. I always seem to avoid that sort of pose as I really struggle with it.

It doesn't really show everything. I use a lot of layers, so some of the sketchyness and guidlines get removed before sending it off to a commissioner. Depends if the lines are in the way or not.

It gives me more ideas to try to help me overcome that obstacle.

This is nices
Just a question. the first part saying pose sketch. Was that gesture drawing technique for making pose ?

Very nice progress by the way.

Mostly, yup! I just call it pose sketch since most commissioners wouldn't know what gesture sketch means exactly, so this is more clear.

I should do more gesture drawing, best for making action pose and good for warm up drawings.

They're actually best for any pose! It makes the drawing less stiff.

This was adorably emotional... Couldn't explain it but it hit right in the feels

I don't use reference pictures that often, if I do it's usually to get a pose idea more then anything. But sometimes I need to look up some species to get an idea or re-fresh my mind, like looking up cats.

But nop, not really! The sketch won't always look like this, it can be much rougher, some parts get erased. Depends on my pose sketch, sometimes I have to do a lot of re-sketching while often I can use it as a template.

Oh! If you meant character references, then yes! Sometimes I use them for the pose sketch, but the pose sketch is not meant to look like the character at all (just does sometimes, unique bodied characters I keep in mind!). So I usually just take a quick glance to do the pose, then actually look look at the ref when sketching.