This looks great! You're demonstrating a very good understanding of where facial features are placed, as well as their 3-dimensional shapes and proportions.
I have two suggestions to help you improve.
1. Get in the habit of regularly flipping your canvas (horizontally or vertically). Even if you flip it right back, that's enough for your brain to reset and see what might be off:
- the near eye is noticeably smaller than the far eye
- while the angles on both eyes are perfectly okay, you've drawn each eye at a different angle.
- drawing a line across the bottom of the nose, you'll see that it is twisted downward (matching the near eye), while the mouth and far eye are horizontal
2. Background color strongly affects how we perceive colors and values within the image. Unless you're intentionally practicing lighting in a dark environment, it's best to use a neutral light-grey canvas for things like anatomy or form studies. I always use #c0c0c0 (75%) - it gives lots of room to play with highlights and shadows, without skewing value perception.
I'd actually like to see you push the shading even further by adding highlights (such as on the nose, cheeks, forehead, lower lip, and chin) and "pulling" shapes out of the page. Don't worry if it doesn't look right at first - that's just a matter of practice.
However, if I had to recommend a single feature to focus on for the next session or two, it would be the lips. Look at a few different photos and sketch only their mouths - there are several subtle curves and shapes that you haven't quite captured yet.
I have two suggestions to help you improve.
1. Get in the habit of regularly flipping your canvas (horizontally or vertically). Even if you flip it right back, that's enough for your brain to reset and see what might be off:
- the near eye is noticeably smaller than the far eye
- while the angles on both eyes are perfectly okay, you've drawn each eye at a different angle.
- drawing a line across the bottom of the nose, you'll see that it is twisted downward (matching the near eye), while the mouth and far eye are horizontal
2. Background color strongly affects how we perceive colors and values within the image. Unless you're intentionally practicing lighting in a dark environment, it's best to use a neutral light-grey canvas for things like anatomy or form studies. I always use #c0c0c0 (75%) - it gives lots of room to play with highlights and shadows, without skewing value perception.
I'd actually like to see you push the shading even further by adding highlights (such as on the nose, cheeks, forehead, lower lip, and chin) and "pulling" shapes out of the page. Don't worry if it doesn't look right at first - that's just a matter of practice.
However, if I had to recommend a single feature to focus on for the next session or two, it would be the lips. Look at a few different photos and sketch only their mouths - there are several subtle curves and shapes that you haven't quite captured yet.