@mitsuki-youko Thank you! Yea that is what I was thinking too and I've been having some fun with this already so I think it was time to make the switch and move forward.
@snakker Thank you! I've been working really hard practicing the basic forms and rotating them in space, it seems like those have been helping and finally paying off a bit haha.
@patrycja.lerch Thank you! I'm happy you think so. I'm still not sold on it but it's something that I can come back too and try my luck at it again. Hopefully I'll have a better grasp of what I want it to look like by that time haha.
I don't have much for today. I'm not quite done yet but I've got a busy evening ahead of me so wanted to get something posted before all that hits. So here's the whole two things that I have at the moment.

Spent some time reworking the self portrait and the overall contour/line work of it. Noticed some things looked pretty funky and wanted to get at least those fixed. Then spent the rest of the time getting the shading done.
Was really challenging, I still don't really know how to work hair so did the best I could. First time using a hair brush and even working with hair digitally so that was kind of neat. A lot of areas to improve but I am pretty excited to get into more of Term 2's exercises and start working to improve on these new areas.
Anyways, thanks for looking! Hope you are all well!