Character Classes

So last year in May I posted some character classes I had been working on. They were meant to be exercises and not finished concepts so that I could work on improving my painting skills in Photoshop. The irony is I don't feel like that's how that worked out at all. With each illustration I felt like I was back-peddling trying to keep the style and overall feel of the illustration similar across each piece. As a result by the time I got to the most recent piece I felt it necessary to un-apply all that I had learned to make it match the other 3. I guess that's what I get for slowly painting 4 images over the course of a year.