welcome back
an epic start to the year
love the first two, i suppose partly because they are finished and fully coloured and shaded. It really does make a difference from a sketch no matter how good the sketch is. But also great colouring and the poses are nice. Although the poses are quite similar maybe would be nice to have more of a variety. Having asymmetrical poses always helped me to come up with better poses because there's a lot more interesting stuff going on.
Cool warrior orc as well, would be great to see that one finished. The detail on the bits you've done already is awesome.
And finally nice studies, at a quick glance they're practically identical to the original, so great understanding of values there. Gotta work on that myself.
Keep it up and can't wait to see more!!!