>>7644868
>Traced
Copied from reference but purely visually and no grids. No trace. Ref in picrel and I'm too poor to print it out to trace it as well (Also got the angle slightly wrong). I just have got a good sense of proportions and I have built my own construction techniques for the body over the last 8days and I draw with a 3H pencil first and repeatedly erase/correct until things look right and the do linework on that.

I'm already looking more at the page than the reference to fix proportions, so I'll take the trace part as a complement, ty.

And I'm doing the lines with a pen, not a pencil and a very cheap (around 10 cents a piece) gel ink based ballpoint pen that just spills it's ink everywhere like crazy and and I tried to do light lines with it on a separate page and it just wouldn't do it. So those are the lightest lines I can muster (except when the pen malfunctions and sends in less ink lol) and I'm trying to do thicker lines by repeatedly going over it and thickening it (yes I repeatedly went over thickening those lines on the face like a retard, but again, that's why I'm doing this linework, to study and fail.)

And I recently did a value study with a 9B pencil and I think I can do that value exercise pretty well with that pencil.

I just don't understand where I'm supposed to put thicker lines until I pull my face away and realize I've fucked up.