I see it hasn't been mentioned yet: the light source is inconsistent. Hair is sorta-kinda lit from the front and the left. His right leg (our left) is lit from the front, his other leg is lit from the left (kind of). His shirt is lit from the front and a little from the right. Change those all to be consistent (and not front-lit) and it will look better =)

On another note:
I wear cargo pants and have short dark hair and I'm not anything.

Ok, so it is just an anatomy edit =P I'm sure it still has problems, but I think it looks more like a real person would bend (when you're drawing, think about knees and elbows and bones and such...I usually base my forms around a stick figure, as you can see in the edit)



As for the color, there are two important lessons I learned that helped a lot:

* Shadowed parts are bluer and less saturated.
* Darks should be DARK, and brights should be BRIGHT (you can overdo this, of course, but it's much more common to see people have too little contrast...for instance, in your picture, the two hair colors are hard to distinguish unless I really look)

I would also investigate the shading on his arm. It looks quite pillow shaded (that is, the light source seems to be "straight on", shining straight from the viewer's eyes onto the picture...it generally doesn't look very good). The easiest way (for me) to get good depth is to put the light source at the top left or top right of the picture, and shade accordingly. Give it a try, with some more dramatic enshadowing, and see how it looks (and let me see it when it's done, I'm curious to see if I hurt or help =P)

It looks to me like the back of the head is too small, and he is missing a nose. Also, the hands are very confusing and I don't know what they are supposed to be holding.

Be patient =) Two hours is not very long to wait for a reply (and asking for a reply won't get you one any faster).

My suggestion: get rid of all the empty space for now. We don't know what you plan to do with it, and it is confusing. Just post a picture of what you want comments on (in this case, just post a picture of the guy, without the space around him).

Your greys all look very much the same. Come to think of it, so do your skin tones. Make the brights brighter and the darks darker -- if that makes it look too choppy, then dither or add a mid-tone (I recommend that you dither). I suggest using a greyish *color* instead of pure grey, as well.

Minimum color does not mean minimum detail ^_^ You can still add folds, shading, musculature, etc.

That blue is not a good background color, I think.

Where do you want to go with this picture? What's the purpose, what's the goal, what's the subject matter, are there any specific things you want help/comments on? (For example, once you asked "How is the head?" then I had some things to say, and I made a reply =) Do you have a reference pic that you are trying to emulate?

Put some more work into it (and at least complete the outline for the whole figure) then show it to us again. Once we see the direction you're trying to improve in, we will have more to say =)

Though not anywhere near as lame as a reply that not only fails to be constructive, but also borrows its lone destructive element from the first two replies. Yay for being useless and potentially hurting people in the process.

^_o

Very imaginative and cool -- I look forward to seeing what you can do with practice =)

(it's irritating to have good ideas that just don't look the same when you draw them out, innit?