Gesture Drawing Struggles
Linking an Imgur gallery of other gesture's I'd done since Reddit only has a 20 image limit. The ones posted here are done with a 1 minute time limit, various ones in the gallery have none.
So I'd been going at it the past couple of weeks now trying to really understand gesture drawing. I don't know if I've done "enough", honestly, I haven't turned it into a daily habit of any kind. But it is kind of difficult to do so when every attempt feels like I'm clearly missing something or messing something up.
And I have watched every major video out there singularly about gesture and have constantly come away nowhere closer to feeling like I get or comprehend it in either the way I'm reading it or in my own way.
For a good part of the last two weeks, I'd been looking over Michael Hampton's lectures and book "Figure Drawing" before finally digging into Matessi's "FORCE: Dynamic Life Drawing"
And I feel like I am nowhere closer to understanding any of this and just getting even more frustrated as both men's approaches seems to just glance off my brain.
I feel as though asking for help is pointless because it's like I'm lost in a forest that so many other people are walking around just fine in because all you gotta do is see in the dark, but every explanation on how to even approach doing that makes no sense.
And yes, before you frantically go to youtube and get a Marc Brunet video, Proko video (and then end up link Matessi and Hampton), Winged Canvas, or Kristian Nee, and some others that just are not coming to mind, yes I've watched them. If it would come up on a search for gesture, I *probably* watched it and it's just not making sense.
And even though I am certain at this moment that posting this will be as good as me posting in other art related discords I'm in about my woes, I am just resigned to suffering through gesture studying for days on end cause what else am I gonna do.