You should try charcoal. It can be really dark and can be erased relatively easy. I mainly use it for quick sketches before class. It would be a good way to get that more aggressive dark look that you need. Don't focus too much on the details at first, focus on shape and outline. Make sure to get paper specifically charcoal and get a kit at your local art store. You have super talent, that I'm sure of. You keep at it, check out some examples of people who just kept at it and see how they are now. Some people would love to be an artist but never put in the work. But by looking at your piece it's obvious you should continue. Please join an art class, don't worry about being new. So many people worry about that, there are so many classes just for that and you can progress with them. Jesus this is way to ******* sappy, lots of friends say they got no ability to me though so I wanna say this to you too.
Nice. You could be a little more aggressive with shading here and there (especially the pupil, you don't want to make it look like a blind eye). People new(ish) to drawing more realistically are usually very careful with the shading. I'm speakng of experience, the shading of some of my older drawings is so flat that it seems like I was drawing ghosts and not real people.
But good job! If you're really interested in drawing, it's all about practice, and, honestly, trial and error. Sometimes you'll **** up, and it feels horrible, but at the same time you'll learn and hopefully become better. Don't be afraid to continue. Sometimes you'll make your drawing worse, other times it could become ten times better, you just have to be daring, or else learning new things will be difficult.
If you're just starting to work with colors, work with complimentary tertiary colors (each triangle). They look good together, and becoming great at color choice/manipulation comes from experience with the different colors.
Source- Eight credit hours of illustration in undergrad: I still suck at it.
I draw a lot, and I hate drawing clothing, there's just so much randomness going on that my brain starts to hurt, feels like I need to be a physicist to draw clothing without any kind of reference.
Could've used these tutorials a bit earlier.
I had to draw a realistic eye (and more if you had time left) for photoshop.
I suppose my thing turned out fine, but I wish it was better.
As a painter with whom the conventional teaching methods have produced underwhelming results I learned to mimic what I see rather than shape it from simple forms, which is wrong , thank you.