Nice work, but could use colours
I think you've done a wonderful job of balancing the shading in this piece - the way that the focus softens out as the picture heads into the background works so well, keeping the main focus on your actual self portrait, albeit a manga version of it.
With how the jaw line looks so smooth, I believe that there is room for more detail here and I absolutely hate the drawing style that makes the eyes so massively out-of-proportion with the rest of the face. There could certainly be more detail on the neck,a s there are so many natural contours there, that just beg for artists to show them off.
Despite the shading being absolutely fantastic here, I could certainly see there being enough room for more colour, since even if you just went and added the occasional splash of colour to things like the eyes, it would provide more detail to the image, which would take it to the next level.
It looks like you've got some great quality pencils there, so perhaps invest in some great quality coloured pencils and have a go, to see what you can do with them :)
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