I am happy with how my drawing progressed from my last post, but I am getting to or am at the point where it's difficult for me to see how to push things forward more. I think the corrections I made to some placement/proportion issues I found after last time helped. What I'm having a hard time with I think is keeping the relationships of value correct across the drawing and, on a more technical level, applying smooth values both on the darker side and the lighter side which I think is maybe contributing to the first problem.

Hello! I realize this course is a few years old so not certain I'll get a response, but I just got The Art of Portraiture recently and thought this would be a good companion to the book. So far I feel like my drawing is progressing okay. I've just been making small adjustments at a time and trying to keep the whole in mind rather than focusing on completing one specific area to work out from. I feel like something's off maybe structurally with my drawing though. I don't want to push things too dark before I find and correct the problems, but I'm not sure how much more I can do in the light/halftone areas before they get too close to the shadow value and make the drawing muddled. Thanks!