Kind of random, but I really like how your drawing shows the front end of your face, and your current avatar shows the middle/back in almost the same pose. Lovely drawing!! Did you tone the paper yourself?
I'm really curious as where you got that kind of paper! or how you made it? I love how the face appears out of the paper, but it's not a floating head like usual drawings without a neck and shouders would look. It's really fabulous.