This is more general advice than critique, but for learning how to construct/ model the face I would recommend studying Andrew Loomis' Drawing the Head and Heads (not least because it's free). Also, references are life-saving here. You don't have to, say, go around copying photos exactly, but even if you just look at yourself in the mirror, seeing how a person's face works (that sounds weird) in a certain angle or expression will definitely help with getting shape and lighting right.
I'll try to get some actual critique about the piece up later when I have a little more time. 
Thank you very much for the link and advice ^_^ I've been having a bit of a lookthough the book today and it seems just perfect to study, and filled with precisely the information I'll need to improve
Hahah, I was actually making funny faces in the mirror for a large portion of drawing this to try and figure out facial muscles (and not quite managing) and I take your reference advice very much to heart! What I really want in the long run is to understand everything I can't see in a face which makes it act the way it does, and I guess drawing from references to start is the best way to get there.
For the eyes I think they're a little too open, so combined with a toothy smile he looks a little crazy ;P I'd try to lower the upper lids a little so that it doesn't look as if his eyes are wide open.
Thanks ^_^ Yeah this seems to be the general consensus amongst the advice givers and it is duly noted!
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Having experience drawing realistic people, I'd say the eyes don't look very sunken in to me, but that there's too much space between the eyes and the eyebrows, so that makes the eyes look a little deeper than they are.
I don't think the eyes are super wide, it's just that they tend not to be perfectly almond-shaped/symmetrical. The bottom eyelid can't widen (I mean, mine can't, so as far as I know) so they're always relaxed. When you smile, the eyelid squinches up, so I think it looks a little weird just because the eyes don't match the mouth. This isn't my best eye, but it might look something like this. Generally when relaxed, the iris will touch both eyelids. Hope I could help!
Thanks so much ^_^ Yeah, I see what you mean with the eyes and scrunching up when you smile, and it's pretty obvious once pointed out >"< although the iris touching both eyelids was something I hadn't really thought about before and probably should have
I'm home again after a short trip to Copenhagen, I missed the minnion meetup by one day, aww! But I have some tips to your drawing, I hope they are helpful!
First, ref lines for drawing faces are good, and it looks to me like you've looked them up before you drew Emil! I've drawn in the ref lines for a face seen directly from the front, and they match his face almost exactly:
Now, the nose is not seen from the front, and so that explains some of the off-feeling of the rest of his face, I think. Looking in a mirror (I suspect you've done that, his mouth look slightly familiar!) take note of how your eyes and mouth change in relation to the nose when you move your head. If you move the structures on his right more towards the center, the different parts of his face comes together better. As noted, the eyes are usually also a bit more closed than in your drawing, with the irises partly covered by the eyelids.
I played around somewhat with liquefy to show what I mean. (You've done a very neat job of making him look in one direction and I messed that up a bit, when moving his face around )
I also moved his face and neck to the right, because the angle of neck and face is really hard to reproduce in real life.
But overall I will stress: Really really nice drawing, it is obvious that a lot of work went into this, and also a lot of keen observation on the details! Well done!
Oh wow, you've really gone all out here thank you!
The tips are indeed very helpful (Hahah, it is kinda embarrassing that you can recognise my mouth in this >"< I tried to make it look more Emil-esque, but honestly the best way I could figure out how the mouth would move was by watching my own aaaaaaand apparently it shows
) The second drawing especially, where you've corrected and annotated the mistakes is great, and honestly it makes me really happy to see the picture more as I wanted it to look ^_^
Sadly I don't think FireAlpaca has an equivalent to liquefy so whenever I change something it means painting everything over
(Unless someone knows of a way to do it in which case I am all ears! The transform tool is the closest I could find, but it's nowhere near as good) I'm not going to re-do this one, or at least not for a little while. It was pretty time and energy consuming, and I'm pretty tired of it, but I'll take all the advice into consideration when doing the next picture, and it will hopefully be a bit better
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