Catfist's pitiful attempts at art

[JonHop]

Hey don't beat yourself up so much! I think one thing that would really help you is to go and study from real life, anything, a still life, human model, a tree, whatever you want but just start drawing things you see in front of you in 3D space, it will help you with rendering and understanding form. Cuase I saw you say twice that you should study it :P.
Also good job on the imagination skin tones, goign and studying skin tone with ref then coming back and doing it without ref would prob help to cement what you learned and take your skin tones to the next level.