my sketchbook

Whilst thinking about my work and how I feel like I'm in a slump, I went back and looked through my sketches.. trying to see if there was one common theme that tied it all together and could be considered "my style"...

some of these have been posted here before, others are new and some are quite old but I've kept them because i liked the look of them... I'm actually hoping that my tutorial coming up in the next few weeks will provide some insightful information that will help me progress further but I'm also putting up these images so that I might receive some feedback on them and advice... thoughts on how to keep going, what to focus on and hopefully how I can make them into a finished piece, something more than just a sketch

actually.... I remember some feedback I got at the very start of the first year... when viewing one of my final pieces, my tutor was more drawn to my sketchbook, seeing how I developed my ideas, more interested in the process rather than the outcome (which seems wrong to me)... but later that year I was also told, people can be hired for their ideas etc rather than their actual finished pieces...(but surely isnt this just a way of people stealing your ideas and getting credit for it...? this has already happened to me once.. and i hated it)...

hmm... i just want someone to say here's what you should do... practice at it and you'll be set...

blind contour drawing:
i love these as they have so much character to them and each is unique, theres no denying that I have created these and each is my own... but after the sketch.. how could I add to them? screen print... what colours?

Cute characters:
this is a collection of characters that I have intentionally drawn cute or that have ended up cute looking :) I cant help it.. its a mix of my loves for japanese culture and cute animals :D

Concepts:

this is my sketchy, rough drawing coming into play... I particularly use this style only on a few drawings just because I like being loose in the detail, which allows for interpretation but also means nothing is set in stone, thus can be changed... (also again it gives them some sort of character... hence why I love ashley wood's work)

Odds & Sods:
These are all drawn in different ways but all my own... this is what i mean when i say I dont have my own unique style... some are more accurate than others, others include my sense of humour, most are doodles made during lectures at some point and quite a few are sketches that I intend/intended to put into illustrator... very comic in style with heavy outlines...

Brief sketches:
finally these are a few sketches from my recent brief and a previous fictional one to design a carpet for a Mulberry Flagship store... I am more excited and enthusiastic about my sketches for the editorial brief rather than the crap I produced... so... how can I use this to my advantage?

so... I hope this time next week im more excited about my future within Illustration than how I am feeling right now...