Currently I'm working on the cheeks and lips.

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I'm going to make the cheeks less dark next

You don't need to make cheeks lest dark, because your values are ok. It's more atmospheric with darker shadows. Change it only if you don't really need to have that mood in your drawing, if you are going for something else...

Yeah I'll have a dark background but the lower cheek needs to fade more from the top. But I'll be gentle with the erasing.

Some of your shading is off. I can't tell if it is his hairline
or shading. If it is shading try to lighten it up a little more.

Oh yeah I see what you mean I didn't notice that. I'll be sure to fix it thank you.

Ok so here are all the changes I made: I fixed the hairline, lightened up the cheek by blending it, fixed the eyebrows, added a shirt, and added some paper to the back to make it pop and stand out more, and cropped the paper size.
So I'd say it's done, or just about. I need to blend the shoulder a tiny bit more but I'll just update the post and not make an entirely new one.

So now that it's finished tell me what you guys think and if there is any mistakes I'm just not noticing.


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after looking at this more I need to fix that nose...

Alright this is the final version! That nose was bothering me so much I had to go back and change it. I think it looks considerabley better now. I also fixed then shirt.