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tacocat  ·  3158 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can I get some no nonsense honest critique of some art?

Aside from the wonky lighting, you're choosing a very challenging medium, pen and ink, and it's resulting in about two values. If you want your work to pop like I suspect you do, you need a gradation of value from black to white and all things between. Try doing some exercises to practice hatching as a way of shading to get comfortable with what you can do with your tools. Come up with eight or ten distinct values from black to white. It's basic 2-d design 101 art school exercise.

I can't tell what scale this is but it doesn't look very large. It's usually easier to work larger to give you more room for detail and value study.