good stuff man, esp for a first year, as mentioned above.
I’ve never seen an ID kid do a rendering like that in flash, but cool.
Ditto on the light source thing, personally I like a lot of contrast to really play up the volumes (as you can see on my link)
Nice job capturing the materials on the Nike (Vandal?), when rendering shoes it’s best to draw the profile in an “Ideal” type situation, normally when a sample comes back fresh from Asia it will have a foot form in it, maybe even a full last, this is kind of the ideal, no wrinkle, fresh outa the box look. Again, you can see some of mine.
The reflections aren’t working right now, with a straight ortho side view you can just mirror the image without distorting that, sometimes I’ll even airbrush a bit of white to look like it’s a polished surface.
Keep it up!