Pencil sketches will always be the truest form of ultimate test for anyone's drawing skill. It doesn't matter if the work is a new image or copied - because the idea is to capture your idea or subject as accurately as possible, with very minimal room for mistakes.
Of all the mediums out there, I struggle with raw pencil and paper sketches the most - especially when drawing human figures.
I can see you really did struggle to get it right... Although there are some loose ends you can tie up in the picture... Kudos! It's a good job nontheless. Please keep drawing.
Thanks Bob.
It's like I said.It was my very first attempt at a Macross character drawing. my second was Ishtar. Now that I look back at them all I see is where I screwed up.