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First of all, I think the composition and expression of this piece is great. I really enjoy how the bricks in the back are more faded to suggest that it is far in the distance, but also to keep the focus on the character at hand. I'm not sure if the 'magical' feel of the extreme blue overlay on the eyes are on purpose, but I like how it looks, since it's like mystical, but again, not sure if that was your intention.One thing that I would recommend looking at it shading and shadows. I think that it's a good base, but there isn't enough contrast for my mind to read that light coming from the side. I think you could study the planes of the face a bit more and look at how extreme lighting looks, and use that to really make the piece eye catching.Before you go into shading at all, I'd recommend doing lighting references, and really critically thinking about how the light would hit him. It's a bit of a chore at first, but after doing it for a while, you're mind will naturally known where the lights will settle, and you'll rely less and less on reference.Also, in reality our shadows are made out of both hard and soft shadows, and getting a mix of the two is when you get a nice realistic look. Your picture here has a lot of great soft shadows, but a few hard lines would really make it pop.If we take a look at this stock image as an exampleThere's a lot of soft shading happening around his leg for example, so we read it as being round. You can really see htat fade form the bottom to the middle. But where his hand is sitting on his lower leg, there's a gentle hard shadow from where his hand is covering. Also in the creases of the shirt down by the belly there's a hard shadow there, and in the creases of the upper arm. Pulling a bit of that into your art will really help with making it look less 'soft' so he doesn't fade into the background.Another thing I would recommend is to get somebody you know to take this pose when you are coming up with the composition and taking a photo to use it as reference. It feels as though the limbs are quite long, so double checking those proportions with studying a real model would really help. I do this a lot in my own art because I'm terrible at legs (I've also been guilty of drawing on feet backwards haha) even to this day. Use as many references as you can, we all do! It's not a cheat or 'crutch' at all.Other than that, great expression, nice stylized attempt to the hair. It's also a big improvement form your first picture with all that detail! I'm excited to see more in the future B)