I have major issues drawing a face from the front. I practiced that and armor today. Final sketch of the session.

I think that hands-down this is your best piece to date. I've followed your body of work for awhile now just because I liked to see the improvement and your comic idea intrigued me, but I feel like this is the first drawing that has shown a sizable degree of improvement. This frontal view of the face looks like you may have used some reference and gotten the proportions and spacing of the eyes, nose, and mouth a lot better, which is something I think you've struggled a bit with in other drawings but looks pretty good here. The face seems to have an attention to detail that has been absent in some of your other sketches which I think adds a lot to the character overall. She looks feminine yet still determined. The hair looks more fluid and I like the longer strands flowing out from behind her back. However, I do think the hair around her face looks flat and plastered to the top of her head. I think referencing some hairstyles and sketching some would help you to get the volume and body that normal hair has as well as see how the hair stands away from the scalp a bit. But overall I like the head very well. I'm actually pretty bad at futuristic armor and things of that nature myself, so I can't super critique that. I will say I like the symmetry of it and the design looks cool, but to me I would think of function over form and some of the shapes on her chest get a bit muddy to me and I have no idea what they really are or their function. I understand most of your stuff is heavily sketchy and unfinished, but I think clean line work helps tremendously in this style of drawing. Since you work digitally anyway, I would just take the extra time to really define your lines and clean up unwanted ones. It's not a big thing just personal preference really.

Bottom line, this is my favorite drawing of yours to date and I think you should keep going in this direction. Keep it up!

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