Took me a while to figure out how and why gestures are so important (I always thought it was the silhouette). And I don't mean just the underlying gesture; but every stroke of the pencil or brush should convey and re-enforce the gesture.
Gesture is the thought and understanding behind every piece.
It's safe to say that any given drawing or painting is nothing more than a hierarchical diagram of gestures: from the big generic to the small specific.
