Tutorial Painting

Working at the University has been quite a weird experience. Within the space of a year I've gone from being on one side of the education system then thrown onto the other side without really realising it!
Since there hasn't been any students over the summer, we've been refining how the students will be taught next year. So I've been asked to set up a digital painting tutorial for next year teaching the pure basics of Illustrator and Photoshop, then building more skills and techniques on top of that. Was a bit of challenge since I've never wrote one before! But it was a good experience!
Anyway, these images are examples that will be shown to the students. The idea is to give them the template of this drawing, then teach them how to edit then paint it. I'm really curious to see how well they do!