You'll be amazed at how much your traditional work will help your digital... and vice versa. I spent a long time doing only digital work because my eyesight is so bad but I missed traditional so much I've gone back to it but I have to make some accommodations. I'm "older" and my hands aren't steady - so I can't do pretty linework anymore. I don't see detail very well - so my paintings are more" painterly." Point is, as much as I love digital, there's no replacing putting pencil/pen/brush to paper!

Here are my animals, and the extra references i used apart from the original. I tried to make the rooster look more serious and the buffalo and hippo goofy.

I drew two of the projects digitally and kept the penguin drawn traditionally to train my line quality on the paper. I am happy with the penguin the most, it was fun creating the large strokes making up the body. Watching the critique i realized the importance of the assignment was to sketch with energy, do you think one or all of my projects convey energy well enough? Which one should I address? Thanks!

I used clip studio paint as the medium for this project. The snail was fun and so was making the shape of the boots but the shoelaces were very tricky. So much I tried it once more to see if I could take a different approach

This looks pretty good, except the shadow on the side of the pear, and the shadow on the ground plane should be the same value. If you squint down with your eyes, you will see that all the shadows will merge together.