Wow I'm surprised that you start off with a stick figure. Usually detail oriented self taught artists like you don't start off that way. The funny thing is, that's exactly how they teach us to draw in animation. Start off with a gesture to get the pose down, then flesh it out. Although one thing we do a little differently is we make sure there is a lot of flow in the pose. That's really important in animation.
I used to just draw the figure straight out but after I learned the meager amount about anatomy that I now posess I began drawing the sticks first as I discovered that I could get better poses doing it that way.