I found it! but alas the website it's from no longer exists....but the point is I can give you a critique now
And soooo lets seeeeeee.
The one real thing that bothers me is the fact that he is pretty much floating lol! Probably would have been a good idea to draw the ground line and to give that thing he’s sittng on(what
is he sitting on?) so more depth so he’s not floating.
You’re running into a common problem a lot of people have. Foreshortening vs What your brain knows is there. (Foreshortening doesn’t make sense to the brain so you have to trick your brain)In the picture, MJ is sitting more at an angle but you drew him at a more forward angle(not necessarily a bad thing though). I guess you could say that your brain
wants to draw what it knows is there and thus you drew a more forward angle. But like I said, tis not necessarily a bad thing with this drawing. I wouldn’t have noticed it if I didn’t see the ref.
Ummmmmmm…hmmmmmm, some proportions of his body are off because of your brain fighting foreshortening.(Your brain is saying “This doesn’t make sense woman!” *makes you draw entire arm*) You can see what I mean by brain vs foreshortening by looking at the length of his left/our right forearm. You drew it from a front view but in the photo it is slightly foreshortened.
I see that you’re also running into another common problem, being afraid of going too dark. Ok yea, MJ is hella pale, but he should still be darker than his white shirt
Face proportions are pretty spot on lest for the foreshortening thing.
(I hope I don’t sound mean, I always sound mean when I critique
But hey, it’s hard to improve when no one tells you what to work on)
But other than the foreshortening stuff and the shading stuff, tis allll gooood. I mean, I could tell what photo you referenced from. Kudos for that. You got face proportions down, mad props for that
You’ve captured the original vibe of the photo too
Tis a lovely drawing. I like it
holy ship I wrote an essay O_O