G'day guys, welcome to my sketchbook!
My backstory

I discovered Sycra's channel two years ago and have been lurking on this forum anonymously for awhile now. Ever since I was young I was a kid that loved to draw, but never took art too seriously, since it was just fun for me. In the last few years, I realized that being an artist was something that I wanted to do as a job, and took it semi-seriously, buying a tablet, filling out sketchbooks, but still drew mostly stuff from imagination without studying from life or reference too much - I did do gesture drawings and some proportion studies, but it wasn't a habit. Two years ago, I finished high school and begun a degree in media production - quite an open degree, with opportunities in audio, video, graphic design, animation and other aspects of producing media. I was most interested in animation, but knew I wanted to work in a design job rather than a dedicated animating job. I took art a bit more seriously, trying to do a bit of digital painting and character design. I took courses in costume design and composition, hoping that they would teach me something or motivate me. They didn't, and while the assignments did push me a little into other media, such as pastels and watercolour, I didn't learn much that I hadn't already learnt from art channels on Youtube.
Now, at the end of my second year at university/college, I decided that if I wanted to get anywhere, I needed to sit down and really get some work done in the next few months before university starts again. So two weeks ago, I started putting more hours into learning and experimenting, especially with digital painting and colour. I'm very new to this, so that's why I've made this sketchbook here, to get some feedback and general advice on things.
Some recent digital paintings I've done over the last weeks. Mostly figuring out colour and just painting techniques in general - never tried painting with acrylics or oils, just some very basic watercolour glazes to add some colour to sketches.





Gestures. Not happy with the way I do them as far as line quality and form goes.




Some studies, which have been really helpful I feel, even though they were pretty quick.



Figuring out how to paint rocks and mountains a bit...

Portraits, which I have a lot of trouble with. I want to be able to paint more roughly and be less nitpicky about rendering and cleanliness.

Finally character sketches!











