Thumbnails, Value Studies, New Skills, a New Direction

So it's become abundantly clear to me that I need to just draw daily. So I've been attempting to maintain that with doing value studies, learning some new brushes, as well as some new techniques.

I've been wanting to 'complete' a piece of art to add to the portfolio, but haven't been doing the legwork to actually getting a good idea that I'm interested in working on to choose from. So, here's the first sort of set of drawings I've come up with. Nice, but nothing really that interesting pops out.