birthday gift to myself- ctrl-paint tutorial

I decided to treat my self for my birthday, so I got the rendering in photoshop tutorial from ctrl-paint.com- Matt Khor the author claims it was a photoshop version of art 101- so I peeped it out and tried to use some of the tricks on the attached image... it was a cool tutorial series that stressed seeing in value rather than color and the three types of shadow- cast( direct light), bounced light ( indirect light) and occlusion shadows ( dark shadows that may seem like lines due to proximity of objects to each other----the one thing I got out of doing the attached image is that practice and observation are key- so as you can see I need to observe and practice more- lol- peace

here come the boomers

just watching this anime series called Parasite dolls about a world filled with humans and androids called boomers- this is a take of of AD police series- bubble gm crisis- I thought I would do some fan images of boomers in photoshop- so here is my first- to create the brush texture- i added transfer and texture to the regular soft brush with shape dynamics- no scatter was used for this brush- so it kind of smears than blots- I was looking for a charcoal or patel-pencil look- I guess its close....I used eraser tool on highlights of the hair- and a larger soft brush on lower opacity for shading...