The lighting seems to be a bit crazy here? The hair lit from the top right corner, the eyes from the left.

On a side note, I wonder if Christopher Hart will write something helpful to anyone one day? He's apparently not succeeding on DeviantART at doing so.

I'm also avoiding talking about light sources and color choices used to dictate where the nose and details of the ear are.
Partially because I forgot about that, but also because I don't really want to nitpick at every little thing in your image and make you feel like you're a terrible artist.
You're not a bad artist. You're an amateur and show many of the halmark signs of a beginner, but that doesn't mean your a bad or terrible artist. It just means that you have a lot to work on to improve your work. You do have potential.

I'm sorry that I'm posting on an image that you posted back in may and not on a more recent submission. I'm really only here because Hart is a hack and kissed a lot of ass in his critique.

I'm going to be frank with you, but this piece is extremely stiff. I know that comment probably doesn't make much sense to you because it didn't make sense when my friends would tell me the same about my own work back in the day. Essentially what I'm saying when I say your work looks stiff is that everything on the character from their hair down to their smile looks forced. There is no movement or 'life' to the character's hair. Her hair just looks kind of like chunks of blue wood that were glued to her skull. Hair is effecting by the likes of gravity, the wind, and movement. It's a good idea to watch how your own hair reacts to when you move around or when it's windy out.
Off of the hair and onto the face. For starters, eyes have form. They are not just these flat things in your head that are just composed of the iris, pupils and "white bits." Eyes are essentially like small balls resting in your skull that skin wraps itself around. This is something to keep in mind when drawing eyes from different angles or perspectives. As for the rest of the character's head/face I can't really give much of a critique on without making it sound confusing. I cannot stress enough how important it is to draw things out lightly before going and adding ink and colors because it helps avoid making a lot of easily avoidable errors. I highly suggest drawing your characters out lightly before throwing on clothes, hair, and other details to avoid a lot of the stiffness. In all honesty, it's always a good idea to look up references of actual people or even use yourself with a mirror when you come into trouble with areas on the face because it lets you get a better understanding what you need to do to make the face look "just right" when it comes to the placement of eyes, ears, the nose, mouth, etc.

In all honesty, I really do suggest for you to take a small step back from drawing anime from time to time and draw what you see from life. Not draw what you see in a photograph reference, but what you see in the world/environment around you. It will help you out phenomenally on your figures, backgrounds, objects, and more. This thread on the Art Discussion on Gaia actually explains life drawing way better than I can, and there are tons of references and resources in the thread that you can use to whatever extent you see fit.
I also suggest letting go of any 'HOW TO DRAW [WHATEVER]" books that you may or may not own. Especially if it's something written by Christopher Hart. I REALLY cannot stress how bad those books will be for you later down the road. There are so many more books such as Loomis that are worth the investment when it comes to improving your work. I also suggest "Drawing From the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards which contain a lot of drawing exercises that help you out a lot.
You're free to take my suggestions to heart or just toss them out. That's entirely up to you. I do suggest to at least give that thread a look if you do decide to go, "Nah, I'm good."

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May I just say.... :I

Only reason I'm here is because of Christopher Hart's pathetic excuse for a critique, very kiss up if you ask me.

You should look at a few tutorials and try to draw backgrounds.
It's good, but there is no true light source, the nose is blue... , the eyes (detailed by Mr. Hart's standers) are flat and uneven, if you had chosen a different nose position and changed up the chin a little it would of looked good.
It look as if she has almost no neck, her shoulders are bunched up, and the thing that bothers me the most is the inside of the mouth. Call me weird but the inside of my mouth isn't my skin tone.
The way her hair is positioned looks as if there is a wind (in the back it higher and stiff (kinda looks like the wind is barely blowing on it to me) but her bangs are to perfectly placed for there to be, so she must of used way to much gel in that pretty hair, I mean to get that perfectly sculpted hair shape, no hair out of place. Dang girl, tell me how you do it. My mom would kill to have her hair have that much volume and shine.
Just a tip, you may chose to use one color to make the lines or just use a darker shade of the color around it. Say you had a girl with blonde hair, you would outline the hair with say a dark yellow or a darker yellowish brown color. This would make it "pop" a little more.
Oh and that thing Mr. Hart said about eyes, no no no. How he explained it, I had to stop reading to laugh. To laugh at his description.
He made it seem as if this picture had no flaws, when it does. You can pick every piece of art apart and find flaws. His is just easier to pick apart, yours as well, and don't get mine started on how flawed my work is.

I just suggest you read some tutorials, practice more, watch some people who draw with Copic markers (this may help you use them easier (honestly it looked to me as if you pressed a little to hard with them), study up on anatomy and light sources, and maybe find your own style.

Keep up the good work. I hope that helped.
Good-day,
~suki-desu123


_{I'm sorry for any errors/typos/grammar mistakes/etc. I'm not in the mood to edit it to much. Don't bother asking why I didn't put this in a critique because I didn't have enough things to point out for me to write one}

Went here because of the (badly) hilarious critique of Christopher Hart

But in all seriousness, you have some heavy problems with faces. They are badly stylized and they are generally scretched towards the bottom. I think you better check this tutorial, in order to overcome that problem: [link]

good for starting out but, practice makes perfect
it looks kind on one dimensional and lopsided, and the coloring could use some work.
I'd reccomend you outline things in black/ sepia before you color them, that way it'll look more clean.
I like how you put the higlight in the hair, nice touch if I do say so myself, but the streaky-ness of the hair is kind of unnessasary. To get the hair effect down, use a thin outlining pen (005 mm) to add fine lines in certain places in the hair. This will make it look like the hair is in strands instead of line-ish looking things. Just dont put too many lines though, or else the hair'll look like spaghetti XDD
Overall, good work. I'd say, keep trying and you have great potential

Hello! I do very much like your coloring on this, but it seems as if the drawing itself needs more time. Like the face is very "flat". It doesn't look like its going outwards at all. And she just seems very stiff. Especially her hair. Draw stray hairs! Just draw kinda squiggles and several lines and be more free with your art!
Keep practicing! It's fun and you'll improve faster!