Realistic Self Portrait

The pupils could be little bigger, and the eyes themselves a bit longer

Lips could be a bit higher up on the face.

The neck lines should come from a little closer to the ears.

After the midpoint feedback, before I started adding value I completely redrew the eyes so they were more proportional to the rest of my face. I also made the bottom half of my face a little narrower and more tapered as well as widening the neck at this point. I couldn’t really raise the mouth much because I didn’t want to have to start at the beginning with it.

I have learned how to draw facial features more accurately:

In my pre instructional drawing, my mouth looks like a trapezoid, my eyes are symmetrical ovals, and my nose looks like a pig snout. In my final product everything is more organic and curved and resembles my actual features.

I also learned how to apply value to portraits:

In my pre instructional portrait, there isn’t really any different in value except around my eyes, which resulted in my face looking flat. In the final drawing I used changes in value to make my face three dimensional.

I learned about the proportions of the face:

I learned some guiding lines that apply to all faces that can help locate where the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth should be.