I see great effort, Arthur! How often do you practice? It's good to get in the habit of daily drawing to improve on the hardest things like line control and proportional accuracy with eye measuring. Also, try to take your pictures with clear even lighting so we can appreciate them better. Sunlight works great! Best of luck.

I think what would help you is having more of a contrast between the lights and the darks. Your shadows seem more like halftones to me. I would push the darks more, and even darken up the nostrils a little more. I would also focus more on the structure of the nose and try to get the shapes down a little more accurately. You're doing good, just keep practicing mindfully and deliberately and you'll see improvement! Hope this helps ;)

Hi @Cristina Kaiden, nice studies! And especially good job with the nostril area in the bottom drawing; it feels very threedimensional I'll do my best to help you further: I would do some studies were you break the nose up into planes, as shown in the lesson video https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-draw-a-nose-anatomy-and-structure/discussions first the major planes then the smaller ones. When you're comfortable with the planes, shading the nose becomes easier. In your second study, the area of the ball of the nose and the nostrils, feels a little flat. You've done a good job in showing depth with overlaps, but the shading is hard to read. If you start by identfying the planes, getting a clear shading becomes a lot easier: Step 1 Identify the planes Step 2 Identify the direction of light Step 3 Planes facing away from the light are darker. Planes facing the same direction receives the same value. Step 4 Now you can start softening things and adding dark accents, because you're doing it on a solid foundation I hope this was helpful :) Keep up the good work!