/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I'm tearing my hair out, I just don't understand gesture drawing.
>Practice gesture to understand anatomy
>Don't do gesture until you fully understand anatomy
>Find the flow and keep it free and loose
>Find the center and anchor it down to give it weight
>Don't follow the contours
>Follow the form
>Do it all in 30 seconds
This is so immensely frustrating. I just don't get it. I don't fucking get it. I don't see how drawing references even worse than I normally do is helping me improve. I don't understand why every person has a different idea of what a gesture 'is', but doesn't expand on what you do that *makes* it a gesture drawing. I don't understand any of this shit. It's like teaching an adult how to swim.

>What's wrong idiot? Just FLOAT! Everyone can FLOAT, it's so basic! All you need to do is contradict everything you've learned and be loose but also tense at the same time. Toddlers can do it!