I've been learning more about drawing faces, i decided to go on to the parts and practice all together later because i really want to start rendering.

Then i tried the parts...

After this atrocity i decided to learn more about shading, so i studied that some more and i think i got slightly better.


The grind goes on!

Thank you for the nice comments!

Today was a slow day and i didn't produce much, but i wanted to share something that made me really happy, i feel that i have overcome a obstacle that has been a struggle for such a long time.

I was feeling demotivated while trying to structure the heads and decided to see how it would change the way i usually draw.

It may look silly, but today was the first time that i ever felt real joy while painting. For such a long time i hated doing it, and because of that, i focused too much on doing just line art, because of that my pieces would never be trully finished, and i would not give everything i have.

The painting is far from being good and the page is a mess because i wasn't planning on posting it or anything, but i want to keep this as a register to myself.
I hope that this is a starting point, and from now on i can trully give my 100%.

Thanks Kosmo!
This video of Sinix was very helpfull to me:

Today i finished learning how to construct the parts of the face:

Now, it's time to practice a lot!

Thank you Lukie!

I started to dip my toes on rendering the face.
I'm trying to limit the number of values i'm using so i don't feel overhelmed, using only hard edges brushes, because i heard i will learn more this way...

I've introduced mid tones in this one:

I'm gonna have more caution to keep things less messy next time.
Let's keep practicing!

I've made some more drawings from reference... painting is difficult, but i will get there!

I've tried to construct some from imagination too.

For last, i decided to try to draw my D&D character, i applied some suggestions that i've received in discord, and gonna try to paint it next! I'm really happy with the result .
Wish me luck!

I've painted the character! I'm happy with the results, i think i'm going to make my friends characters too before stepping up to term 3, i believe it will be a fun practice.

@Lukiesartventure Thank you for the feedback! I got carried away and made some crazy shadows hahaha. I'm going to be more careful next time.

I started working on my friends characters too. The first one is Wim, the Tortle (turtle person) druid!

AND the remaining friends of the party!

I definitively need to work some more on faces, but i will go on for now, to learn some more things and get better with time!