This seems like a quick sketch. If it is, it's pretty good for one. Very nice job with the face shape and the neck along with the neck shading. It looks good! The proportions are all nice, too, except the lips seem a little slanted, but it's not too bad that it ruins the picture. I like the emotion in this piece as well. Is this charcoal..? or pencil...? either way I can tell you tried shading in some spots and others you just outlined the details. You can only go with one of the two ways with this time of media. What I mean is, in life there aren't set lines that are there like in a cartoon that are filled in with color. The lines instead are made by the highlights and the shadows on the surface, showing us, for example, how the nose is further out than the cheek. Using the different shades and contrast you can show the volume of the figure. Now look at my crudely drawn example: The left represents just average cartoony style outline. Note how the nose and cheek are shown as lines and just that. Now the right is more of a realism shading. I'm guessing you were going for realism in this piece so I'll talk more about the later. See at the edge of the nose how it's black but on the cheek it contrasts just a bit with the gray? Sorry for the bad example, I tried to get my point across. x3 I really hope this helps!! I can't wait to see your next drawing. :3
