I see some improvement here, but not very happy with these overall.

Catching up after a bussy week!

My velvet assignment. This one was very fun.

This one was not easy, especially the ceramic monsters without a reference to observe. I'll have to go shopping for ceramic trinkets for practice! :)

I imagined a tired bear wizard returning to his home with his trusty hooded staff of light. :)

@Brent Eviston Thanks for the detailed critique! I feel a couple of concepts finally sank in with a few "Aha!" moments, especially the idea of molding the abstractions to better portray what we're seeing. I've also been practicing with ribcage and pelvis placements over some light tracings and am already seeing (and feeling) what I was doing wrong. I'll try to do these practices more often, they're already proving very valuable.

This one took me a while, and am still not quite sure about the colors and bounced light, but it was fun. Learned a lot.

I might have to redo the 2nd one, I think the ribcage there's a bit too big.