Two characters for 80's themed movie genere

Final alien in collage/paint assignment

Cover of the 2010-11 collection of student artwork for Pre-Animation and Illustration (where I gots some mad skillz) 

Progression of space pirate. At each of step I roughed out at least five options, these are the ones that stuck and the different ways I looked at them before colour.

Here she is with her steed.

Another homework assignment for life drawing. From photo and mirror, painted in Photoshop. I added skin texture as a final step. Used painting masks to keep edges looking clean but painterly. Learned that from Matt Kohr: http://www.ctrlpaint.com/alternative-masking-pt-2/