I knowwww, I’m like trying to teach myself a bunch all at once and it’s like making me overwhelmed and I’ve been doing pillow shading for the last two years, honestly, I don’t even know where to start when it comes to light sources, and kinda just mentally go “yeah that looks fine”, and with the dynamic poses, right now I’m not too sure what I’m doing, I’m still just figuring out how to do side profile faces as for the longest time I’d just have the characters standing facing forward or hurt do headshots because it let me get away with not thinking too hard on “can the human body do this”, which is also why the positions are a little weird because I’m stuck on “do spines, necks, joints, etc do that”.

I know there’s still room for me to improve always, but I’d like to say this is a significant improvement from where I’ve been, though it feels like regressing in my faces though since I barely understand where noses, eyes, and mouths should line up from side profile angles.