Gestures and some longer poses. And below are a couple quick faces that I painted.

I usually start in monochrome and then move to color but this has been giving me some unsatisfactory results so I decided to play around a bit. This guy is in my usual style of working. 

This one I went straight to color.

 And this was a mix of the two along with heavy use of masking. And I think is the most successful one.