/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I've been thinking lately on how to find out if the sketch or line-work is good. I've been drawing mostly portraits and the something I noticed is that the construction phase is always ugly looking. But it goes back up once I start adding shading and detail. This is particularly difficult when working on more stylized figures since I can't simply do a 1:1 comparison.

I guess I could only find out by doing some low quality rendering, maybe adding two or three tones of shadow. I have discovered that my line quality is still utter crap, but I definitely need to get good at inking if I want to do a bit more lineart.

Anyways, just writing my thoughts if anyone wants to discuss. I think I've manged to answer most of my questions just writing this down.