Life Drawing 350

I've been working on extended poses now too, I started using coloured pencil but it didn't produce the effect I wanted to I tried NuPastel. I'm obviously not very good with NuPastel, but I think I'm going to try to keep working on it to see if I can get it a little better. There must be a reason so many figure artists choose to work with it. 
I'm still working on gestures, while I'm trying to do new things I don't think they've significantly improved. Maybe it will be better next go around.