Pre-instruction Self Portrait

I'm trying to improve my drawings by working my way through Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook. The first exercise is called 'Pre-instruction Self Portrait', because you're supposed to draw it before you've actually read the book, which tells you how to draw it. Well, I've cheated because I've already read the book, but anyway, it's been a while since I first read it, and hopefully after doing some more of the exercises in the book I'll be able to draw a better self-portrait than this one. This took me about half an hour, and I used only a 2B pencil. It looks like me, but the shading could use some work.


Pre-instruction Self Portrait