Photoshop studies

I'm trying to get better at Photoshop, so here are some studies of people I did today.

This one is of Alyssa (her art blog is on my links to the right, btw, so do visit). She was Photoshoppin' me too, so that's why she looks so serious.

And this is JP. He's playing Magic. Haha, I realize both of these are extremely stiff, but ah well. My main goal is just to practice painting in Photoshop, since my Viz Dev works look so muddy. :[