The scorpio

Disregarding the rating system since it doesn't help much at all

Hello,I've been wondering around DA and noticed that you have requested a critique on this piece,this is my very first time critiquing so I hope that this comes as useful to you~ ; u ; /

First of all,this is a very nice drawing but I'd like to point out a couple of things.Observing the image carefully,I'm getting that this is a female because of the shape of the face and the style of the eyes? The human face is shaped like an upside down egg and there is a skeletal structure underneath it.

Here is an example of a skeletal structure of a human face: www.medicalook.com/systems_ima…

The bones in the face help to give the face it's shape,ontop of the bone is the muscle and tissue.Since this is a female face,the features will be much more rounded with softer features.

Here's a reference of the a female face without the skin ontop: us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/cha…

Now,for markings on her face.It seems that you decided to draw in the marks after you had drawn her face.The scratches on her face should be on the skin,not floating onto of it,especially not over the eye because it makes it look like her eye was scratched too.The scratch marks should not be covering over the eye and should fade as they come closer to the lips.

Ok,away from the anatomy stuff and more into the background and the mood of the piece.The moment I saw this piece,my mind instantly thought of a dark atmosphere and mood.You conveyed that very well with the color palette to the piece.I'm assuming that this character is standing in a dimly lit cave.So far as I look into this image,I can verify about 3 different light sources,the one on the right being the dominate one because I'm assuming it's the moonlight seeping into the cave.The other two sources seem to throw off the actual light source being shown[Not sure if the light thing in the back is another cave opening or not and the light on the left side of her face shouldn't be there].

I've gone and did a quick red line of your image and I identified the light source here: gyazo.com/1b92c98dd12e2015f0de…

The moon light is coming from the right side of the cave from what I can see.When the light hits the person standing there,it casts a shadow in which you see on the left side of the image I showed you above.This is just a quick drawing to show how light is shown on the figure so I didn't go into full on detail shading the contours of the face,etc [You'll have to looked up references and light source tutorials to get a better understanding of how light affects a figure or object.You can also try experimenting with light yourself by studying the way light bounces off an object or person.]
Studying from life is the best way to improve your art and it can help you in the long run.
Well those are some of the main points I wanted to explain in this critique.I hope this comes as a valuable piece of information to you since I'm going off of what I've been taught in art school and from the things my teachers drilled into me to help me better my own art.

Anyways,I wish you luck on your journey of improvement and I hope I didn't sound too mean or harsh ; 7 ; /