Gradient Mesh - not just for straining pasta!

So a certain someone said I should only post every few days.
I have something to share, so I'm gonna post. Sorry BF. :)
I was staring at the rock picture that was roughly commented on and got a brilliant idea.
So lo and behold, below is the same picture, but recreated using a gradient mesh.

Sorry about the watermark, dear readers. I have to protect my work.
The gradient mesh tool is really cool. Its like taking screening, and shaping it around the object you are creating. Then when you have the shape, you start to add the colour. The neat thing is, you can move the mesh to recontour your project as needed while you work. So you can tweak and tweak until its just right.
Here's another one I did about a year ago:

and here is another, this is a project from a course, so poor John only has half a profile:

 I found the result with drawing people this way is a bit Sim-like. Hmm sNada nada na pa?
There you have it, the gradient mesh.