Egbu draws stuff!

[Egbu]

So recently I have been slowing down on studies a bit because I feel like they can only help me so much, before I have to get my hands "dirty" and start painting from imagination to apply all the stuff I learnt. I have been doing 30 minute speedpaintings, not necessarily to get faster, but it has helped make the things I am bad out stick out like a sore thumb and one of those things is values. When I was painting in colour from the start shapes and planes were not reading well even if they were completely different colours, so that made me realize that I should start making sure I keep values in mine more or else the whole painting will just fall apart. This might be the biggest chunk of text I have written in this sb so far, but anyway here are my failed attempts at painting, with the last image being an illustration that stemmed from a speedpainting.
Crits wanted!