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Gesturescratch anon here,
still trying to figure out gestures. I know part of it is a mental thing, like seeing lines of code in the Matrix, but in this case seeing people with gravity/water lines flowing down the pose of the body. Some of the shit I can see, but other things leave me stumped.

I was playing around with #1. As much as I don't like it, I traced over it to kinda get an idea of the body's flow.

#3 is pretty easy to me. I can see a definite contortion that would make for flowing river lines of form.

#2 though has me stumped. The whole point of gesture is to avoid stiffness, but when the body is a stiff, rigid pose like that, what can I do? The model isn't doing any bending at all. And to draw that would be pose-drawing and not gesture drawing. And the degree of confusion I have hear leads especially to aimless chicken scratching.

I know once I get the mindset I can grab ahold of it like a wet bar of soap and just keep grabbing and grabbing until I can grind them comfortably. I know I can do it!