Thank you for your advice! I definitely have to work on proportions and, in general, the big picture. It's very tempting to jump right into the details for me.

I combined all of the Photoshop Graphic Design assignments into the box assignment. I had a difficult time coming up with details and designs for this, but the Smart objects are very useful. And I got more used to the pen tool when I created the character on the front. The title is a story I'm working on my spare time. Though, my more recent ideas might make me change this title.

Here is another photoshop digital exercise. Definitely need more practice. I'm still not used to blending in photoshop (or blending in any media in general haha). Creating custom brushes is pretty fun.

Here is my work-in-progress for the three-point perspective assignment. I always avoided drawing backgrounds/settings before because I hated measuring stuff, but doing this assignment made me change my mind on it. It's quite fun, and, in a weird way, it really unlocked another creative side of me. I do plan to add lighting to it as a challenge. I may or may not erase more details from the bottom half. It actually had more detail than it does now. I erased the details because it looked too distracting to me.

Thank you! I forgot to reply when I liked your comment haha I definitely got into a flow zone and lost my sense of time on this one haha

Here is the assignment with lighting. This was quite a challenge. I had to go into my sketchbook to figure out how the angle of the light for this would look like in this setting. There's a section on how to figure out the angle of lighting in Andrew Loomis' Successful Drawing. It has a wealth of resources, and I think it's well worth a look. It helped me reverse-engineer/decipher how the lighting would be placed by using other perspective techniques. The bridge's shadow was difficult, in particular, so I guessed and messed around it until it looks right. I'm not sure if I nailed it, but at least my lighting seems to direct it near my point of interest (hopefully).

No problem!

Here is my 4-point perspective assignment. Drawing this was really weird for me. I am not used this perspective. But I got to practice my line art on the human figure. And this does make me think about when I would use this perspective grid.

Here is my volume study exercise. It's easier to think about lighting on simple shapes. I still need to do more to get the hang of it.

I'm going to take my time on learning the different features of the face. I'm learning a lot more about the face than I expected, compared to my art courses I took back then. So far, my studies look really rough, but I definitely understanding why they look as they do in real life.

More face studies. As much as I wanted to draw a more "realistic" face for this assignment, I may have been thinking about Mark Bagley when I was drawing the eyes (Ironically, I was more inspired by anime/manga back then, though, like Naruto, in particular. However, Mark Bagley was great on Ultimate Spider-Man when I read like the first 40 issues.) I definitely can't draw an accurate realistic face without references just yet, but these exercises helped my memory.