/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4374700
Ever heard of Disney, retard?

>>4374694
I understand your misgivings. There was a time I didn't understand gesture either. I followed instructions on gesture drawing, but never really *got* it at first. Walt Stanchfield's books on gesture drawing helped me with that. Because gesture isn't a specific set of instructions, it's a way of thinking and approaching a problem.
Gesture is the main idea of a subject: what it's doing, how it's affected by forces such as gravity. It communicates acting, emotion, and feeling. Gesture drawing is merely the exercise of trying to get that essence down in the most succinct way possible, exaggerating the action and ensuring that it is easily readable and it gets the point across. Many different methods exist, but in the course of time you'll most likely come up with a gestural shorthand of your own.

Gesture is a fundamental skill just like construction and in fact they are two sides of the same coin. Construction communicates form and gesture communicates action. If the construction is the structure, then gesture is the life that inhabits it. Getting better at gesture lends liveliness to your construction, and conversely getting better at construction will give your gestures more form. If you lack in either skill it will show in your art. So be sure to practice your gesture by both doing gestures of figures from reference and doing simple figures from imagination acting and interacting.