Thank you, @mitsuki-youko and @catsforsnacks for your guidance! I will start practicing and working through this assignment for the next few days! Later I will also complete and post my original drawing of a one-point perspective environment (Perspective 1 Assignment 3)!

My original file containing my first point perspective drawing went missing. Not exactly sure how that happened, but I decided to just move on instead of starting over. Hopefully that won't impact my growing skills...?
I'm now working on an original second point perspective drawing, but I ran into some 3D issues.

To avoid making things appear bigger or closer than they appear, I've pushed my vanishing points outside of my canvas, which I think ended up working. This project is near completion, but I wanted to take a small step further and add some shapes that have extrusion. Instead of having a flat door on my main building, I wanted to extrude part of the wall towards the interior of the building to make a hallway-like entryway. I was also going to add a staircase leading up to the entrance, but after about four or five times attempting to make a staircase, I couldn't figure out how to correctly draw it. In addition, I wanted to add a pedestrian signal on my post (roughly drawn in green), but it looks...wrong.

I fired up Blender and remade one of these problems and tried to see where the edges were going and what the angles were and all that, but it didn't really help, unless I did it wrong in Blender too.

Any solution to this? I appreciate the help.

Making progress!

And here is one of my works for Digital Production Assignment A.

Now I will be working on that box cover assignment!

I am now on Term 2: Week 2 of ART School, and the lessons and exercises are getting more challenging! So far I am doing well with studying the human head, but I am facing some difficulty with the "Photoshop for Digital Production B" assignments.

Blending different colors or blending dark and light tones are not new to me, but in Photoshop, blending does not feel the same.

This above screenshot depicts a blending method that uses Photoshop's Mixer Brush Tool. The results are...sketchy. No pun intended. It did a pretty good job blending the two colors together, but look closely at the results. Where did those sharp, unnatural strokes come from?

Now this is Marc's method featured above using the default Hard Round Pressure Opacity Brush. It works, but it's not smooth. I found this method to be the most difficult. Color picking and brushing and color picking and brushing...it took a long while to get to this result. I can't imaging working on a large scale project and having to blend each section one at a time like this.

Finally, this is the method that uses Marc's Smudge Brush and the Photoshop smudge tool. I liked this method better than the previous methods, but the smudge brush seems to allow me to stretch the colors a small distance. If I try to smudge one color over to the other with a longer distance, it ends up looking scratched on. You can see how tight the blended colors are in the center. I'm not sure how I would achieve blending a color all the way across the subject I'm painting.

I'll keep practicing and working through the assignments as best as I can. Maybe I'll figure all this out along the way, but if anyone has any suggestions or tips I would greatly appreciate it!

Ugh! I'm horrified by this! I really did try my best too.

I've been getting busier and busier lately. It's hard to find the time to practice art. I'm on Week 3 of Term 2 right now, but I don't think I'll be able to practice all my current assignments in a mere week. I will need a lot more time to practice drawing the head and all of its different features.

Still on Week 3 of Term 2. I've just completed the portrait study assignment. I'm not impressed with my shading, but I hope in time I will get better at this technique. I am aware about the advantages of using "the full range of values," but I didn't implement that in this assignment very well.

But guess what? My proportions seem correct at least! I feel like I'm getting better at this!

The last assignment for Week 3 was to draw 5 character heads from imagination. I was able to finish 4, and I believe I've improved a little! I did realize, by the end of this, I'm going to have to study even more human heads from real photos.

Something I struggle with, no matter how much I practice, are those basic 3D spheres. Whenever I try to draw them, I get a flat circle with a flower pattern slapped on. Despite undoing and redrawing, it never comes out right. I end up moving on and later wonder why everything looks wrong.

I already started the next week's assignments on more perspective stuff, but it seems I am still not ready to proceed as I am completely missing some basic 3D skills that I'm probably going to end up needing for the 3-point, 4-point, and 5-point (good gracious, does it ever stop?!) perspective drawings. I'm gonna go back and get this MASTERED before moving on.

Thanks for the help, @Pattu_w and @snakker! Back to the grind now...

So here's what's been happening lately. I have this notebook that I use for both school and for writing other important stuff down. I just opened that, and for these past few days, I've just been drawing circles with those contour lines that give the circle the appearance of a sphere. I've filled pages with these drawings now. Up until now, they've been looking a lot better, and I think I understand them now. Today, I decided to test myself and create an animation of a rotating sphere.

I think I will continue to use this and try to build the face and the facial features--using basic shapes (e.g. a simple rectangular block for the nose)--on each frame. So far, does this look correct or do I need to keep practicing the 3D sphere more?

The animation was done in Clip Studio Paint. I tried Photoshop's animation feature and I didn't really like it.