Had a go at the exercises then four other ones. I noticed in the examples the jaw goes to the back of the head (past the ear). This can be tricky when the pose is from the side or the back of the head and the ear/jaw end is in the middle of the head. Eg upside down example 3.

Attempted some random poses. Like others have said, drawing the gesture when the chin is up is tricky. Need to watch the demo again.

Looking forward to this going live today (still early in the UK). I’ve learnt more about portrait drawing from Michael’s head drawing instruction (book and videos) than anywhere else.

Great lesson. I like the simplified thin shoulder girdle - less clutter. I am beginning to understand the customisabilty of this approach and not getting hung up on any particular step. Less stressful approach for me especially when drawing in pencil as it reduces the number of marks piled on top of each other.

As mentioned in gesture basics 1 Its quite difficult to get the direction if various gesture lines without being thrown off by the contours, eg the neck. Did an experiment of setting up the pose with Proko's Skelly app and I think it might help to initially get a feeling for those basic volumetric forms (without muscle contours) in my head. Not a substitute for real figures but I think it's helped my understanding of anatomy a bit. Just need to get all this down to 15 lines!

Lesson from this exercise. Do hundreds of these.

Lesson from this exercise. Missed the tilt of the head so that would make it alternate fron the rib cage. Lines at the top of the rib cage close the form and don't flow into the deltoid curve.

Lesson from this exercise. Fewer lines on stretched out parts, limbs etc to keep eyes moving quicker. Lighter lines on cross contours.

Michael, this additional content is so great thank you. Needless to say that any future courses you add to this site will be a instant day 1 purchase for me.

Watched the lesson then had a go at these by myself afterwards, Still have problems with gesture, I know it's just an aide for the latter part of the drawing, but they can be things of beauty by themselves, and mine aren't! Feel a bit more comfortable when 3D comes in and can see that they put me on the way to a final drawing, although not sure how I would lose all the pencil construction lines. We will need another course from Michael on how to progress our drawings from this stage, and a course on producing pretty gesture drawings!