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Designing a character based on the personality you want them to have is a different skill than portrait drawing. She's going to be a character that lives inside the Backrooms, so I will probably not keep this design but I want her to look even more detached/vulnerable. I think she still looks a bit too extroverted for the character I have on mind. I liked this as a drawing though and I was being purposeful in choosing each of her features.

Started drawing my cat and it evolved like this

Colors in the first one looked much better on tablet, but as I'm uploading this from pc it looks worn out. I figured it looks better with brightness at 50% max, since I'm using lower brightness on tablet

I finally decided to begin the clothes drawing practice, after I've felt I have practice enough with the face rendering, plus I wanted to draw something different. I chose this reference (found on Pinterest) because it's just a shirt and it's way easier to practice on simple fabric. I'm still figuring out how the folds and their shading and patterns work, but I have to say that after I've practiced on them by painting them and not just drawing only the line art, somehow their shapes registered much better in my brain. I also applied the hard/soft edges technique on the folds that I've discovered from drawing faces. After clothes there's only perspective and buildings left to work on

Semi realistic Rendering practice. Colors a bit muddy but that was also in the reference. This is a painterly way of drawing likeness. I'm still not as confident with painting like I am with sketching, but I think this came out decent and the plane changes and contrast (although blurry) make it look like it's getting close to realism