Playing around with Photoshop

This is the first time I've drawn a human figure from scratch and colored it. I played around with Photoshop and used these wonderful tutorials I found:

Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2

This is far from perfect (nose too small or too far from the mouth, shadows and other details missing, body unfinished) and it wasn't that easy to do with a mouse (I don't have a graphics tablet) but I'm content with it. Not sure if I'd try anything like this again with a mouse, though!

Bead dragonfly

I got a bead assortment mainly for my card hobby but when I saw this and this (gorgeous beadworks!) I had to see what I could do with mine. Here's the result, my first ever anything I've ever made of beads. :)

Coffee beans for graduation

My friend graduated from university and I made this card for her very quickly. The text says freely translated: "Even the best coffees are brewed with time". I used real coffee beans for decoration. My fountain pen didn't flow well on this paper and I think it shows. There are also some other details that bug me but I'm not going there. :)