Reflection 5

I am way behind on reflections, so I'm just going to provide updates from the last three weeks in this one. I have been working 20% time, I just haven't been updating the blog.
I finished my first drawing. I think it looks pretty bad and flat, but that's okay because it was only my first attempt.

The line through the middle is where I folded the paper, so I won't be doing that again.
Here is the photo I based it on:

Clearly, the hair needs a lot of work, and the shading looks too soft and not accurate to the photo.

I then began another drawing. I tried watching tutorials to improve, but I feel like I learn better through a lot of practice and trial and error.
Again, the hair looks like a stringy mess, but I think the shading improved a little.

The eyes look very cartoonish and the hands are very strange looking, but I think over all it is an improvement from the first drawing.
Here's the photo I based it on:

I'm beginning to realize that all the mistakes jump out a lot more in a photograph than they do when I'm looking at the actual paper.