Lions and Tigers and Beards?

The first pencil is for a perfectionist project we had earlier this year, that sort of bombed! Like the concept worked and so did the pencil, but when i put it into colour it became un peu perdu. Oh well, i still liked the pencil. The second sketch is of another personal piece I'm working on. The concept/ idea came easily to me, and the drawing was so fluid and natural for some reason. so I'm pretty excited to get crackin' on it. And finally, sometimes in life you have teachers that just bring something extra to the table, just that little bit extra that makes learning an experience...in this case Mikal brought the heat--He had one of the most gloriously tame beards i've probably ever seen in person. He was also a wicked philosophy teacher, Greg and Jesse can back me on this one.