Quote Originally Posted by catnapper
Looking very good!

Two comments though:
*Either remove the hands completely or work a lot on them to make them look more realistic.
*make true black in shadow areas. The one thing most young artists (meaning starting out, nothing to do with age) do is they have too much middle shades of grey and not enough of the strong whites and strong blacks. Pump up the contrast as much as you can. Your drawing will "pop" then.
I totally agree. It makes such a HUGE difference if you keep adding shadows and making it darker etc. I know the first one I did, I was like man this sucks...then I added more and more shading to the eyes etc, and it just makes everythig pop out. The thing with pencils is you have to keep going over it or it will fade out a you work with it...!