/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6904948
IMO try to find a reference with simpler lighting at a similar angle. Yours has a bunch of ambient/reflected lighting you're not quite grasping and your values are too light or too dark in places.

A few obvious points:
You've made the reflected lighting under the brow the same as the highlight above, it's much darker.
Value under nose should be darker.
You have a very bright area just left of the mouth which doesn't make sense.
You could merge that area and the cheek with one large shadow shape, or at least enlarge the cheek's shadow, play with it.

Check out how Bauman has grouped the side-plane of the face with part of the muzzle and lips using just one shadow shape:
https://youtu.be/J9te8gL30Dw
Also at around 5:00 he emphasized the core shadow.