Very nice. The challenge in this type of work is, you don't have a second chance! you cannot use eraser!! In this picture also the eyes, nostrils eyebrows are done with accuracy and the souce of light is on the desk or on the lower level, I should say, is depicted very well.
Thanks for posting more in the series. May I say I think the first one is more of a success than the second. If I had to pinpoint why my first impression would be that the second is overworked as compared to the first - on the first you knew when to stop, and the negative space really works in your favor. On the second one, it seem there's too much information.
Also, On the first I think the play of straight line and hard value is balanced with the right amount of soft edges and gradated textures. In the second there's less of that dynamic going on.
Personally, I find the use of color in these drawings distracting. I prefer them in black and white. The usage of red in the first one isn't connected to something it might express. Now it's purely an aesthetic effect, which gives the original compositions (which I like) an almost kitschy effect.
Maybe you could use these kind of compositions in a more subtle way using a wider range of Gray tones, but that's just a suggestion.
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