Hellish Cactus is drawing

I have a very hard time appreciating drawings I did in the past. I might delete all of them. I’m in the mood for starting over.

Also, I started studying at the university.  My major is the Dutch language, and I'm really keen on improving it, so if you want to help me, and speak to me in Dutch, please do that. I'll be more than happy. 

Few doodles. I think I might paint this one lady. Sketching is not really something that I should be doing during lecture.

It took much longer than I expected.  from reference

I need to practice light and shade more. I don't want to talk about anatomy, it could be better, but it is how it is.  Colors are weird because I wanted it to look somewhat like a statue.

Weird neon-coloured octopus because I don’t feel like drawing my usual stuff. Also tentacles.

I started with the portrait in the left corner, for a warm-up. Hair there isn't really done well, but I didn't want to spend more time on this.  Then I proceed to make lips on the right because I have no slightest idea how to paint them. Especially open. Still, need to work more on it. I'm glad I did them wrong on last painting so I could see I need to learn. Cloth studies were next. Nothing special about it, just two different materials from references. I played with brushes a little bit. Then, I painted the eyes using Krita's symmetry tool.  I didn't try different angles and such because I want to learn basic structure first. The last thing I did was the hair in the right bottom corner. I don't know how to paint hair at all. I have no idea how to make them look decent.  Every time I try, they end up looking very odd, compared to the rest of the picture.

Old sketchbook page with the ball python drawing I did like month ago. But I still like it and consider it to be my favourite page.

Quick St. Bernard dog study I did as a warm-up before drawing.