some digital paintings

This first one was part of an illustration I was trying to do a couple months ago and didn't keep up with pretty quickly on. I blocked out the main shapes but only did some actual rendering on the hands. I like the way they came out, though it's not necessarily the direction I really wanna try for at this point.

And this next one is just a quick self portrait sketch I did; was only about 30 minutes up to this point I think. I tightened it up a bit more after this but I didn't like the way it was going. The drawing doesn't look so much like me (I kinda look like I'm looking up and I think I exaggerated my jaw a bit), but I like the line in this.