Back to the Drawing Board

I've been doing more pencil sketching again recently, trying out some of the woodless graphite pencils I found locally, and working out of a book my sister gave me for christmas on drawing the human figure.  Here are some of the results:

 

 

Obviously, the kitten at the end is the one I spent the most time developing, and I can't take full credit for it as I got lots of help from another book on pencil sketching.  I still think it turned out quite nice, though.  Little by little, I think I'm improving.