Hi! I've been doing this course for the last week now and here are my gesture sketches so far. I'm actually on the structure portion of the course now, but I've been going back to gesture here and there in between. The first one is my attempt before watching any of the step by step videos. The rest is after I watched the videos. Most of these are done digitally. The sketches in pencil are done in a small sketchbook, which is why I think the quality of the sketches fall flat on those. I'm very happy with how the latest 2 minute session went, even though I still find myself lagging with the time. All critiques welcome! :)

Here's a digital self portrait done in Photoshop. I still like to keep my process pretty similar to a traditional approach.

Took a different approach to this self-portrait and I'm not sure if I enjoyed the process as much. But, I did enjoy painting the glasses and the dramatic lighting. Acrylic on canvas.

Here is another self-portrait that I left untitled. I really wanted to capture the slight upward angle from the distortion of the camera lens. This was done with acrylics on paper.

I created this self-portrait entitled "Face mask" in an attempt to remind myself to take some time out of my day to relax and reflect, despite some current events of the world. This was done with acrylics on canvas.

Wonderful composition1 I love the colors also. But I agree with @Yiming Wu the edges of the cloud could be softened in places or lost in in others to increase that depth. Also I think you can push the hues to a bit more higher chroma in the cloud. Next time try creating the grays of the cloud with a combination of complimentary colors rather than straight gray. Overall it's a wonderful painting! I would love to see a series of these.

Looking interesting! Is it intentional that you made the cloud look like "cut and pasted"? There's some very nice paper-cut like effect on the lit edges. I think if to improve this, you can also put some more sharp edges inside the cloud so it has more "layers" of the fluffy shape.

Hi Gino, wonderful value study. Is she one of the Grafit Studio models? If so, than you captured her well. To work with one brush is a good way to start. Try now different brush sizes and blend the values together. That would my recommendation to you. Good work.... keep going.