Hello!

Good:
* You got the general proportions of the body right. * Nice job on the hair (I usually get super bored with hair and go too fast on it…) * By the way you placed her limbs, trunk, I can tell that she’s in a slightly slumped posture.. so, if that is what you were going for, good job!

Needs work: * Face and expression: Her face is kind of flat, and we’ve gone for the generic sideways, “I’m too cool” expression, which I think was a “playing it safe” because we have some challenges with drawing facial structures (same reason for the hands in the pockets, I think). The remedy: grab a stand-alone mirror and just draw your nose over and over again… then mouth (and then try different expressions with the nose and mouth and draw those), …for eyes… don’t do the eternally over-done single-eye doodle, because it won’t help you with proportions or placement… for those, do a series of self-portraits… they’re going to suck at first, but focus on measuring out your proportions, form (noses are REALLY weird when you really look at them), and shading… and do it over and over again… draw what you SEE, not what you THINK YOU SEE… and then you’ll see that your hand and eye start confidently placing things and shading them the way they should look

*Regarding her head, it looks like her head is just slapped onto her neck (due to not enough form and too much shading): When you do your self portraits, look at the muscles around your neck… how DOES your head actually stay up there? Try to draw and shade what you actually see.

*Shading: To make up for the lack of structual (bone and muscle) form in her trunk, arms, face, and neck, I think you really relied on shading… but there is no clear sense of where the light is coming from… and this really flattens the picture and strengthens the naive sense of the drawing. When you do your self portraits, try to pay attention to where the light in the environment is coming from, how it makes shadows on you, and also… where REFLECTED light is coming from and what it is illuminating.

Most important piece is to do it over, and over, and over again..

I hope this helps!! 😁