Portrait after critiques! Any advice welcome!

my first attempt at the portrait, this was based off of the ones i've seen here. i do know i need to improve my proportions and the way i shade my art, but i would gladly appreciate any extra feedback!

My final attempt on the portrait after watching the critique. I would appreciate any feedback!

This is my attempt after watching the demo. I'll try another one after watching the critique video.

I can see now how I totally missed those shadows next to the mouth on the brighter side

My portraits, before, and after watching the critique video. The first one here, that fits on the page, is the 2nd attempt.

I can definitely see my own mistakes here, disproportions with the eyebrow bridge being too far and my lines look a little messy

Second attempt

Portrait simplification I did after watching this critique video. It's a well known portrait of Audrey Hepburn so there's a good chance you've seen it before. In the end, it maybe wasn't the best choice as the lighting on her face is very soft but I think there were still some interesting shapes in there. I'm glad I watched the whole video before finishing this as the example on toned paper gave me the idea to use a white pencil for two of the values. Previously, I was using the colour of the toned paper for the lightest value which meant I had to squeeze four pencil values under the paper's value, thus it was much harder to control and get good contrast. I think using white pencil went a lot better but I definitely need some practice with it. Proportion wise, I've noticed I have the tendency to make faces too long. I tried to compensate by making the head bigger in the hair area but think I just ended up throwing off the positions of some of my shapes (such as the highlight on the ponytail). Definitely looking forward to hopefully learning some measuring techniques later in the course lol

Day 6

Ok, so before I even saw the demo video I made my first attempt. I’ve started with a (admitetly not so quick) sketch in Procreate. I used it as a reference for the shading of the pencil drawing. Right at the middle of the process I’ve noticed my proportions were all wrong, and the second image is the result of that after shading. The third drawing I made it after watching the demo video (which surprised me that Stan also did but much much faster and simpler), and took some of his solutions: I stoped looking at my sketch for reference and used more of the photo, I took much more time getting my proportions accurately, I corrected as I was drawing, and tried to make the difference of values much more noticeable. After seeing the progress made between the two, the improvement feels so good 😌

I decided to give the level 2 exercises a try. The first one is after watching the demo. The second one is after watching the level 2 critique video. Both were very challenging but I also learned a lot. Any feedback is welcome. Thank you!

A couple of value studies using OLO Markers which I just got in the mail today. I got the Proko gray scale set. Very nice indeed!

Here's my attempt at the exercise after watching the critiques. I am truly happy with it.

Hi I would write more. Sorry I don’t know much how to write in English. I am from Cambodia. Thanks

Last try after critiques, I felt more bold on value decisions, and I think I did got a better contrast, it feels stronger. I need to keep practicing 👊👊👊 Messed up left eye so bad that I just included it in the shadow :)

Hi please help. Thanks 🙂

I envisioned this coming out better. Building on my last attempt, I was just thinking about shape, tone, and plane. I didn't want to spend 3hrs shading all that dark tone with a pencil again, so I tried markers. They bled over a little and it was hard to control the streaking. It was my first-time using markers, so I won't beat myself up too much. Although my proportions are better, I blew the hair out too much on the subjects top right side. And that nose is still angled too much. Any and all critiques are most welcome. Thanks

Before and after. Tried to simplify the details around the lips and create more uniform values. Thanks for the critique Stan!

I'm going to give the level 2 assignment one more gone, I got the jist of simplifying the forms but didn't quite hit it spot on. This critique was very helpful.