My ear studies so far, top two were from the video.

Today’s lips /mouth studies. The first one not sure if I got the shape right, maybe turned it into Thanos, lol….

Pushed the contrasts more and I think i got a better understanding of structures underneath!

Here are a few of my tries! Critiques welcome please!

a few of my eye studies, graphite on newsprint, so I didn’t try to over-render, just wanna know if I’m heading in the right direction. Thanks!

Having a hard time matching up the circles to head shape and not sure if I'm making them too small or big yet, but here's some attempts!

various Loomis heads, should I be posting the originals? I just used a bunch of random pictures from pinterest, not sure how to easily post them :( It's a little hard to tell where I changed the proportions to match the image...Also started changing the (cheek)? rhythm to be a little higher in some of them, as I believe that was a tip from another post.

Hello, this is my first post! I have been trying to learn how to hold the pencil differently, but it's proving quite the challenge for accuracy, so my lines tend to be very unsure and scratchy for now as I work on that...The first 6 are from the proko course, the last ones are from a weekly session I started via Zoom. These are mostly 2min poses with some 30 second ones in the latter I believe. Please let me know what I can do to improve (I'm already working on the pencil holding/line/circle excercises every day, hopefully it will sink in soon!). P.S., sometimes you forget everything you're supposed to do when you start drawing in a live session, lol...