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markmaking is great! your lines are deliberate and it adds strength to your drawing. Would love to see more structure to the portrait, get the guidelines down before getting into the details.

keep it up! :)

You are doing great! It looks like you’ve nailed a lot of difficult forms to understand like the nose, lips, and eyes. Your lines also look very fluid in places, overall, this is a great place to be at! 

I’d say there are just a few things proportionally that look a bit off. The ear on the right is very large, the ear should never end over the eyeline or start under the nose when looking at someone who is not tilting their head up or down. It also looks like the proportions of the face are a bit off. It can be helpful to use guidelines for where the eyebrows, eyeline, bottom of the nose, mouth, and chin are. Just take your reference photo and draw these lines on top to learn proper proportions rather than following along with some random TikTok. To start, do this with every reference you use for pieces you will be spending a lot of time on, then once you feel like you can recognize the usual distance between each feature, it will be much easier to place them evenly on your own. Guidelines are helpful as long as you know why, so make it a goal to understand why you are doing what you are doing, no matter what it is.

Hopefully you find this helpful, thanks for sharing your art and doing your best to improve!