For the first ones it seems like a basic loomis head with gestural features - interesting. Is this activity from the portrait drawing class?

Killing it!

Hi! Nice portrait, the proportions are well established. Well done! Personally, I would work on shading and refine it a bit. Try putting down the general value of the face, clothes and shadows, don't forget the background, and then build up from there to create dimension. Shadowing the background is important to avoid dark, sharp lines like the one I see in the lightest part of the portrait. Also, it ties everything up and makes the artwork look complete. Overall you did amazing! Hope this helps you at all since I don't have access to this course in order to compare what is taught with what I think

The expression on the lips is very striking and you have captured it beautifully.

You really improved from first to second. I am not very experienced but I think to invest in your next drawing more time for accuracy in the proportions would help the likeness. For example the ear is to big and around the mouth something looks off. Also my images improved (in my opinion) from more consistent tones of the shadows. The more even and less smudged it is the more polished it looks for my taste. Best regards

With Wednesday's face, it's the 3/4 profile symmetry of the features that is tripping you up. Our eye's are very demanding in that respect. Also, the nose slopes down to meet the brow at the top. This is very important on female and children's faces.

thats amazing

looking good!! :) great work

I like your style, original.

Awesome, dude! I was looking through your old work and you progressed a lot. You're handling better your shapes, you are designing your values with more intention and also your proportions gotten more consistent too. There's two things that I think you can improve. I would like to suggest that you study the Reilly rhythms to relate one side of the face to the other. There's a few minor incongruencies here and there. It's nothing serious, it's stuff that you'd get away in a comic book page for example, but in a portrait we spend more time looking at the face...so studying Reilly rhythms would help you lock the shapes of one side to the other. Studying the Asaro Head and the skull would help too and also improve your knowledge of structure. The other thing is how you're handling hair. Observe how more experienced artists draw thinning hair. I like to group the shapes and using a stump to create lost edges with the background. It's kinda the same thinking Stan uses to draw eyelashes (Review the video of drawing the eyes) But again, man. Congratulations. You worked really hard and it's paying of. Keep drawing and best regards

Excellent! I love the two-tone. Great progress. The shading course paid dividends.

I like your portrait.

Wow I love ❤ your drawing. What pencils did you use (2B, 4B, HB, 3H)

On the last assignment or the portrait class, be mindful of his jaw structure it’s not as sharp as you sketched it. You did a fantastic job by the way

Great set of portrait sketches. It looks like these were all in a small sketchbook, so perhaps it may be easier to do such rendering when you work larger size. The strength here i perceive is rendering of hair, the old man’s beard looks awesome and his eyes as well look really good. As you mentioned, the opportunity to get better on each of drawings is accuracy of proportions, and to do that perhaps you can get a bit scientific. To improve proportions you need some method to give yourself specific feedback to practice. With digital tools drop opacity of scan of sketch and overlay it with photo reference and it will reveal proportions in drawing which diverge from photo. Or just use a ruler to check relative key point of features and skulls of drawing versus photo reference. As a challenge to really reveal proportions accuracy, take 20 plus measurements like width of eye, length of forehead, length of nose, and find your tendencies of making a feature or skull section a little too big or little too small. Last i’m not sure if you are using an underdrawing method or not, but if not perhaps consider exploring a constructive approach to building proportions of skull and locating features through Loomis or Reilly method. I hope that helps.