Raedrob's Attempt at Art

[Samszym]

Thanks budgie, that's sort of what I was getting at.
I purposefully used the word shape instead of form, in gesture drawing I try to consider the rhythms and directions of the 2 dimensional shapes the body makes. So, I'd think about a noodle shape or a circle, as opposed to a cylinder or sphere.
Volume and form come after the gesture stage, those get thought about once the pose/silhouette and action and weight distribution are worked out. (In my process anyway)

but the core thing is, you have to realize that you're not drawing the outlines of the model, but the shapes that those outlines represent!
the letter D, for example. You would write and draw this symbol the same way, a straight line and an arc facing right. When you write it, all you're doing is making those lines. but when you draw it, you aren't making those lines, but the shape of a bullet flying to the right! (which happens to be represented by those lines)
The symbol you make (D) is the same, but the mindset you used to make it is different. And gesture drawing is all about being in the right mindset (in my opinion, anyway)

So in a way, I meant to say it looks like you're writing the outlines of the models you're seeing, instead of drawing the shapes those outlines contain. Hopefully that makes at least a little sense, it's kind of a tough thing to convey.

Here's some dessert, look at these delicious gesture drawing wizards and be inspired and learn from them and go draw!