Practising my Concept Art - Tree

My concept art tends to let me down at times so I thought I'd practice it to improve.

The light is coming from the corner so I thought it would need highlights. it was originally meant to signify Mother Nature but like any designer ideas change and after my Dad made a comment on how it reminds him of something from Disney I changed it. (Still in progress)

Character Modelling Practise - Fat Devil

So I thought it was about time to start learning to make a character.

I started off using just one cube instead of loads of different ones; I extruded, moved faces around and scaled them.
I modelled him in high poly instead of low poly.

As you can see from the example, it looks better in high poly