Hey, @Justin Phelps!  How are you? It’s been a while since you posted this very pertinent concern, and I’m curious to know how things have been turning out for you these past few months. Have you been able to get a clearer glance on where to go? Are you currently taking any courses? Have you been making art on your own recently? I was happy to notice you received helpful and supportive advice in the comments back when you wrote this. It’s mainly what I’d have said, too: consider, above all, what brought you into art and why you like to do it in the first place; do some research to get to know actual possibilities and which might be a better fit for you; and maintain a way to keep you financially supported, either through a day job, savings or family. By the way, you mentioned you’d been a hobby artist up to that point a few weeks before your post, but exactly what had you been doing art-related as a hobbyist? I’m asking this because the kind of art you used to do in your spare time for free and for the pure fun of it might show some clues of where your artistic passion comes from and where it could possibly be directed to as a future professional. Hope you’re doing well!

I haven't been quite active this past week (lots of family graduations to deal with so I'm still running a bit on empty.) However I did manage to muster enough energy to at least get some work in. I'm a bit rusty >< but here's my second attempt with this lesson, I had a lot of help from Serena Marcenco and Peter Anton for this. It's still another trace over though so tomorrow I'm going to attempt doing it from looking at reference alone. I've may have been getting only sparing amounts of practice time this week but I think I'm ready to tackle this a couple more times before moving onto the landmarks video.

Hey Justin, Cool idea. I have a few suggestions that I hope will help your design. As you can see in my draw over, I think you should add some more gesture to your drawings to keep them from being stiff. I hope this helps, keep drawing :)