When the pencil is sharp it will produce a clean line. you can thicken the line when you hold the pencil in a different angle. Softer pencils wil produce darker lines. You also can sharpen thicker pencils like the ones they use for woodwork in an flat angle, so you can produce calligraphic lines. Whit charcoal pencils maybe its easier to make those tapered clean lines Tim Gula explain this in his video https://youtu.be/ZRnQcwKU9DE , I hope this helps. You also can sharpen the pencil more whit sandpaper. Those charcoal pencils work great on newspaper, Stan use it and explain it in his figure drawing course. I think how more you practice you produce cleaner lines and less messy lines.

I like it very much, maybe I would soften the peak of the hair on the forehead a little, don't know really, I am just a beginner, but its like its taken attention away from the face. Very nice drawing though!

I like it, the proportions are maybe a bit off, but its beautiful simplified, and the values seem correct to me.

Squinting your eyes can help a lot.

Hi, nice drawing, I just started with watercolor and find it quite difficult. I wish there was a course for this. Do you sometimes know a good book or other sources to learn watercolors?

Very beautiful indeed!

Hey, great idea, I send you a request (perce@6429)

I am also looking forward to the new proko course, if the course is in line with the previous Proko courses it can only be excellent. Motivating each other seems like a good idea, sometimes I lack motivation. I'm from Belgium by the way, that might be a bit far from Utrecht but maybe we can motivate each other here, good luck with the course!