A couple of exercises

here's a few exercises I've tried recently for fun and practice. didn't follow any guide, I was just bored and so made up games for myself.

Character building from a simple starter shape, seen top-center. all 3 characters were made with that starter shape. very fun and challenging.  how many different characters can you make?

without having a reference, I tried to draw as many different types of cups as I could think of. also attempted to keep them all in perspective, which is definatly something I need to work on. very fun exercise, I plan on doing more with different subjects in the future.

I had my sister pose briefly (20 seconds) and then drew an amorphous character pose study with roughly the proportions of my character Arty, which I then turned into a value study. not entirely happy with the anatomy or values of the facial planes, but I do plan on pursuing variations on this pose for an Arty painting.