Digital Painting: Blob and Whale Boy

In this session we were given a plain black blob and had to add depth to it using light and shading:

I feel this demonstrates how much I've picked up on shading techniques, and giving a sort of texture. After this we had to recreate an image by Bobby Chiu:

We started with a low resolution version of this image and had to shape out the basic colours of what we could see:

After this we were given the full size reference and added additional detail and shading:

In conclusion I feel that the face looks too muddy and the eye doesn't look defined, however this was developed from a technique I haven't used, and I think that the result overall was alright.