I have been away for a long while. Been on crunch since August of last year. It hasn't been great for mental health and motivation. Definitely fell into the whole mental loop of, "Why bother? You won't amount to anything." But! When in doubt... just do it first and question later.
I did it with the gesture first and sketched over the gesture and built it up from there. I couldn't quite do it the same way as how it was demonstrated without the gesture drawing.