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Thanks, @Elson sunshine! And also for letting me know your goal with this! As a mark-making study, I think your drawing looks nice overall! I can tell you noticed and captured the major ways the tones are blended, as well as the variations in line style and weight. That’s cool! One thing I see that maybe might be done differently: Sargent’s work is on a toned paper, while your study is on a white surface - this may affect the way you’ll think about the lighting. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why the reference has a wider variety of values and a predominance of mid half tones, while your drawing looks more high contrast, has less dark shadows and more highlights. Another thing I’d draw attention to is that Sargent’s drawing has a very subtle work with a diagonal hatching pattern, which seems to give the drawing harmony, rythm and some style. I see the hatching pattern in your drawing too, but it looks more played down. Since that’s a big part of the mark-making aspect of this piece, I’d say that’s something to be worked on some more. A few extras to be aware of is that many aspects of mark-making style rely on the tools we use. I see you used an HB graphite pencil, and Sargent’s drawing was made with charcoal, so that difference in tool will inevitably make the process and the result different already. Also, a lot of the textures in the drawing will depend on the kind of paper we use - I see Sargent’s work has a delicate smoothness on the hair area and face shadows, while your work feels a bit more textury and rough, and I’m assuming that might be because the type of paper you used might have been different. That’s not a bad thing, I actually like the textures in your drawing a lot!! It’s just something to be aware of since your goal was to mimetize Sargent’s marking style. Still on that subject, keep in mind that the size of the drawing also might make a difference: for example, a smaller drawing on a heavily textured paper will have a much more textured aspect than a bigger drawing made on the same paper. If you’re going for accuracy when copying master’s work, especially when focusing on mark-making techniques, be aware of how these aspects can affect the result of your work when comparing it to the reference. But, of course, we don’t always get the exact same scenario as our reference artist, so feel free to take my observations lightly and adapt according to your situation. When our studying conditions are different than the ones of the reference we’re studying, we just remain aware of how that may affect the outcome and do what we can to get whatever best possible from these conditions! After all, the quality of a study is not measured by it being a perfect copy of the reference, but rather by what we learn in the process. I think that’s it! Truly hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Merry Xmas!

I wanted to copy his mark making

Maybe it would, the original artwork was in white tho, so i just did the same. And thanks for the feedback