Good Job, Sylvianna The big statement of light and shadow is working and the proportions are mostly accurate (the pupils are different sizes and the chin is pointing the wrong way). What I think you can improve is value design. In my opinion, I feel the values and shapes you're putting in the light don't describe the form well enough. And sometimes you put dark lines in the lighter family that break the ilusion. of form. Even if we perceive wrinkles as lines they're not always the same value. If they are in the light, they gonna be lighter. There's a few ways you can study this. One that you can do it right away is take the original photo and Stan's version of it. Zoom in the forehead in both. And render just that area. Focus on how he is arranging his values and how he is depicting wrinkles. Still, work in the same value range. Observe the image and Stan version and try to comprehend what he's doing and how he makes his decisions based on what he's seeing. Eventually remove Stan's drawing and try with just the reference. And if you want a challenge remove the reference and try from imagination. Do the same thing for the cheeks, the corner of the eyes, the chin... Full Portraits can be daunting at the start, so breaking them up and studying the pieces makes the information more manageable and easy to absorb. Keep Drawing and Best Regards

Thank you! And great studies!!

Very nice! Great job.

I would like to make a suggestion of study to you. I took a look in your drawings and I feel that you have a good understanding of gesture and as you study the face the structure is getting better. However, I think you need a strong foundational knowledge in shading. Right now, I think you are able to see the shapes of light and dark, but you're not relating them to one another and you're not organizing them either, resulting in a spotty shading. So, here's what i would like to suggest you: In parallel to studying the face, study how light works and shading. These videos are a good start: https://www.proko.com/lesson/fix-your-shading-mistakes-egg-challenge-critiques/discussions https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/shading-light-and-form-basics/assignments https://www.proko.com/lesson/top-5-shading-mistakes/discussions Try getting a good grasp on the concept of dividing the drawing in 2 values and how to divide these values in later stages. Best regards

Hi Sylvianna, your underlying Loomis head is looking really good. Especially the extreme side views or the completely straight on views tend to be hard but you handeled it well. However, I noticed two things: - The thing with the Loomis head is that it's just a generic head schematic. So building up a face on the standard Loomis rhythms can result in generic looking faces. In your case, for example the jawline is a little too male in my opinion, because that's what Loomis created it for. Maybe you could go ahead and adjust the schematic more towards the likeness of your reference (if you had one). - The second thing is your use of hard contour lines for the jaw, nose and cheek. Those lines tend to make a drawing flat. Don't get me wrong, contour lines definitely have their place if used carefully. I'd rather suggest that you try to use the side of your pencil to create tiles of tone in order to indicate plane changes. Hope this helps. Keep it up!! -Max

Looks good!