thanks @Lukiesartventure - looking back on it now I think they could look better but the general volumes are there. which is what I was focusing on because i recently started ignoring the volumes when drawing faces.
I've been busy since I started drawing again - just haven't had the time to update this. below are some warm up exercises that I've done to help me get in the groove of doing art.
aside from that I've recently finished this landscape piece. it took me about 3-hours. the reason I mention this is because it started out as a warm up exercise but I started getting more and more into the piece so I decided to continue it. As I worked on it I was very conscious to not tunnel vision on a specific area - usually I spend to much time on details it it takes to long to finish. that's why I started with these warm up pieces to just do simple sketches and move on to a stronger piece. Let me know what you think about it. C&C is welcome.
I've also been working on my character named Shelby. I was originally doing a landscape piece with her before I had to stop drawing for a bit. As I started getting more and more into that piece I decided the overall piece lacked detail so I decided to take a step back and really plan out the piece. that started with a character sheet for the the main character of the piece. 'll probably be working on this piece slowly because I want to try a different rendering method to my previous method - where i would sketch a design and slowly refine and redesign the pieces i worked on. just takes more time that way so I want to get better with time. anyways again C&C is welcome.
Your hands are i n s a n e! Great character too, I think her eyes are a little scary. Might need to close the eyelids a little, unless she's supposed to give off a "I love this gun more than my life" sort of vibe
@Lukiesartventure hank you very much, the hands are a process in themselves for me - you can really tell if its in an awkward position. I'll try to adjust the eyes - after looking over it I think they could use a bit of touch up.
Done with this one - not sure what ill do next. kind of want to do an expression sheet but i also have some unfinished pieces I want to get back to.
very nice character love the rendering on this
The rendering here is mind blowing. Congrats @HANDRO this is great!
The show is actually so good!!!
yup, looking forward to the next season. 
Ok so I've been away from the tablet for about a week now. Taking a break for Thanksgiving - Anyways I switched over from Photoshop to Clip Studio Paint. I didn't want to continue paying the subscription. also I Want to try my hand at animating so I figured I'd jump into it now to start easing into it.
Today I just familiarized myself with the interface and software. here's the tutorial apple I drew.
EDIT: I'll probably tackle smaller pieces for a while to get used to the software. If anybody uses Clip Studio let me know.
I use CSP as well and It is very close to PS in terms of how it works except from a few slight differences so you should be fine if you know how to use PS well. They are also adding liquify if you didn't know on the 7th of next month. looking up a tutorial here and there should get you through some confusing things
thanks for the heads up - yeah it doesn't seem to hard. just have to make some changes to shortcuts to match my workflow on PS.
Do you know if there's a "free transform" option? I was messing around but only saw regular transform.
if you press ctrl + t and look at your tool property menu you can change how you interact with the object you are manipulating and choose free transform along with other different options as well(the mode setting) You can also just ctrl-click the points as well
I can't express how much I love the accuracy of your line-work. Combined with the rendering, it looks almost like a 3D render. You should be very proud, this is stellar results!
thanks so much Von. It means a lot coming from you, especially since your line work is always well done and so clean. On top of the stellar rendering.
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You did a great job on that apple !! One thing I would say is that maybe you should keep the same brush for doing the rendering ? you had a nice painterly brush texture going on and it look really great, you rendered really good with it and i think if you did the highlight with the same brush it wouldve been absolutely perfect.
However i'm not a master take this with a grain of salt it might be just my personnal taste 
Other than this it looks amazing congrats!!!
thanks @leo.glt95. when I was doing the exercise (which was a tutorial. for CLIP STUDIO) I tried to follow along with the type of brush strokes they made. that why I chose a less texturized brush for the highlight. I'm with you on the appeal of texture. I could never get a good grasp of texture in photoshop but for some reason its been clicking with me for CSP.
