Hi everybody! I'll try not to ramble here so let me get to it. I'm taking figure drawing fundamentals right now but I'm stuck right at the beginning because practicing stresses me out so hard. I get the concept of gesture, but put as simply as I can, I don't enjoy trying to draw it, and find myself extremely stressed by time limits on the model drawings. Of course according to Stan practice makes perfect and I'm sure it does but what can I do when practice literally makes me stressed? See I get a fantastic amount of enjoyment out of sitting down in my own time and copying someone else's line art. I dare say I'm alright at it too, attached is an example of something I turned out in about 25 minutes the other day. Things like that I love and enjoy. I can lose myself in copying someone ELSE'S art for hours. But I want to create my OWN art, yet things like trying to draw something even respectably representative of what's going on in a model pose in 2 minutes stresses me out really bad, and that = no fun. So I guess what I'm asking is... I know gesture drawings aren't supposed to look like a finished drawing. Any suggestions for how to chill out and enjoy it? Am I missing something obvious? Should I just file the gesture lessons away and start drawing things with a BIT more structure like the bean/robo bean? I want to do more than copy other people's work. I love that, but I want to create forms and put MY thoughts and visions on paper. I guess I'm just afraid that if I keep hammering away on the first lesson, drawing gesture after gesture, that I'm gonna get discouraged and quit. Any advice, pointers, experience, sympathy and even self righteous scoffing appreciated!