Critique on Portraits

Thanks for the video Darkover. I'll take a look at it on the weekend.

I did this page last night. I was imitating Plate 2 (on page 22) in this book.

I didn't end up doing any drawing on Tuesday - the only thing I did then was upload the ones I did the day before.

I drew this yesterday, copying the third plate in Andrew Loomis' book.

This afternoon I did timed exercises on this site, trying to draw the replicate what I learned yesterday: Link
Each section corresponds to 1-minute, 2-minute, and 5-minute exercises respectively.

Hey Joshua! Looking good with those practices. :) Do you feel you better understand the anatomy and proportions of the head with these?

I think I understand the shape of the skull a lot better, and I can now make it look like the head as at a certain angle (whereas my earlier attempts at angled heads looked completely off).

As for the proportions of the features... well I think I'm doing better than before (I don't have any ears or eyes that are completely misaligned with each other), but I'm still not quite getting it right. If you look at the three faces at the bottom of the page I copied from Andrew Loomis' book yesterday, it's the same head from three different angles in the original image (although it does like like the haircut is a little different in each image). In my attempt, they don't even look like they have the same ethnicity! Looking at it, I think that's mostly due to the shape of the jaw.

I drew this page yesterday. I did 1-minute, 2-minute, and 5-minute exercises (separated by the horizontal lines in pen).

This afternoon I copied the fourth plate in Andrew Loomis' book.

After that I did some 1-minute and 5-minute portrait exercises here.

I'll just copy what I posted in my figure-drawing thread:
"I haven't uploaded anything for a few weeks. I stopped drawing during exam week, then I travelled for a bit right after Christmas, and now I'm back. I did a few drawings (mainly just portraits) at random times within that, which I just uploaded en masse."

I drew this on the 18th of December, 2016.

I drew this portrait of a friend on the 19th of December, 2016.

I drew this on the 24th of December, copying Plate 5 in Andrew Loomis' book.

I drew this on Christmas Day, copying Plate 6 in Andrew Loomis' book.

I drew this on the 5th of January, 2017.

I also received some advice that I should get some more pencils, to vary the line thickness. At the moment I only have HB pencils, so I'll look into getting some more kinds.

I drew this page of portraits today.