/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I've been going through Eviston as my first drawing book for a long time now.
The final chapter is bumming me out.
His lessons were pretty concrete but the first project for this chapter seems to be "uhh go do a bunch of gesture drawings."
I've spent a week doing some and I still don't feel like I've gotten anywhere and it makes me want to give up. The rest of the chapter just gets harder and more intimidating (adding volume to gestures, then adding contours and shadows)