So! I want to consider myself artsy but I'm rather- what's the word, modest? I suppose I'm that when it comes to my work. I think it's ok but I know it lacks so for all you awesome portrait still life whatever this is labeled under artist can you tell me what you think about it and what I could work on?

Wow, you did a really great job.
I'm really impressed!!
I don't see anything thats wrong really,
practice makes perfect!
(:

Very good job!
You did great with the shapes of things and how the shadows fall across his face.
Hmmm, since this is a critique, I'm going to say that you may benefit from adding more tones to your work. Did you use one pencil for this piece? Or multiple? Different pencils can get you more intense blacks and a fuller range of tones that can help bring life to 2-D pieces. See the hair, for example? It's great. You did a nice job giving it the appearance of strands, but there isn't much tone change from the front, where I guess the light is, to the back, where there isn't much light.

Originally Posted by mwahhaha

Very good job!
You did great with the shapes of things and how the shadows fall across his face.
Hmmm, since this is a critique, I'm going to say that you may benefit from adding more tones to your work. Did you use one pencil for this piece? Or multiple? Different pencils can get you more intense blacks and a fuller range of tones that can help bring life to 2-D pieces. See the hair, for example? It's great. You did a nice job giving it the appearance of strands, but there isn't much tone change from the front, where I guess the light is, to the back, where there isn't much light.

Hmm...really now. I used a mechanical pencil and a blending stick that I got from Hobby [email protected] I've been drawing on an off for a few years and this is my second real attempt at portraits and everything. But I've taken only one art class in my life and that was in high school, so I'm clueless on things such has pencil shadings and stuff. Right now all my early work (Which is this and the first picture) is just guesses on how to shade things and stuff. So it would be appreciated if you could tell me about this stuff. I really do want to get better in doing portraits like this.

It needs more contrast. If you're just copying photos, then learning anatomy isn't really important. You should look at some reference, though, specifically for the ear.

I agree, I had to erase the original ear because it was too high up. And when I was doing this ear, it became rater difficult for me to make look as real as the first one.