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Hey Rosephile,

nice work with the portrait! I really like the bold lines and heavy emphasis of the eyes.

If you want to improve there are two major areas I would focus on:

Lines: Instead of drawing your lines in one big swoop you build them up with a lot of shorter ones. This breaks the flow of the overall gesture as well as draws attention away from detailed areas (like eyes for example) because there is a lot of little structures everywhere. Practice long flowing lines drawn from the shoulder. And make them cascade into each other (think waterfall) when combining them into a drawing. There is a nice tutorial in the first lessons on drawabox.com to get you going if you need some guidance. Also 'force drawing' by mike mattesi does an excellent job at explaining this idea.

Construction: It seems to me, that there is room for improvement on your head construction. It looks like you used a ball to indicate the basic head poisition already. You also paid attention to the parallels of eye line, base of the nose and lips. However the chin appears rather flat and the turn between front and side plane as well the side plane itself could be indicated more clearly. I don't know how comfortable you are with constructing primitives (boxes, pyramids, tubes etc) but especially at the beginning of your art journey boxy things are much easier to grasp and draw for the brain than round ones, as mistakes appear more clearly. I suggest constructing your head more like a box and then rounding the corners as opposed to starting out with round shapes until you feel comfortable. And, if you wanna go all in, do the 250 box challenge on drawabox.com.

Hope this helps. Happy drawing!

2. Tough partial side pose with head turned up. Looks good to me. Maybe lighten eye outline. I too would like to be able to make up poses.