Just frustrated. :/

[dogdogdogdog]

This sketch needs a lot of help. I'm very frustrated with it, and eager to get it right so I can go on to inks! :o

Crits would be loved, givers will be worshipped and adored. :)

http://dime32.dizinc.com/~volka/wintersketch.jpg

[Kartoffel]

It's not that bad at all.

I like the face but maybe you should make part where her eyebrow is, less pointing outwards (uhh, what a description, I hope you get what i mean anyway)

For her body: I can't really tell you whats wrong with it, but there might be some problem. Maybe make a photo of yourself in that pose and take that as a reference (thats what I do in such a situation)

Oh, and work on the background more, before you start inking. I am mainly talking about the fence here. All the details in the inked version should already be present in the pencil.

[DSillustration]

i like the sketch.
its ok to have a character looking off the page, but be careful not to always squish them to one side (your last piece was a similar compostion).

we (as americans) compositionally scan the image left to right, the same way we read.
we look at her first, then the bg.
other cultures (particularly asian) view the image in the oppostite direction.
so lets say you had a person on the right side of a painting with nothing on the left.
to us, its a sense of anticipation to the eye.
to the japanese, its a boring end.

try flopping it, do you still like it?
try to avoid that heavy-sided compostion. make her more central, and allow here gaze to direct our eye instead.
the drawing quality itself is very good, just work on picture making and it'll be killer.

[madster]

DSillustration hits the nail right on the head. You've squished the poor girl so tight on the LH edge of the paper that everything looks jammed up, and your proportions are suffering as a result.
Here is your piece with the LH side extended out with a neutral gray, and the jammed edge removed. I extended her arm and shoulder out so they are more "normal" looking, in proportion to the size of her head. Do you see the difference?
http://img37.echo.cx/img37/2204/untitled12ej.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
You still need to make her upper right arm longer, though. It's too short.

Since you seem to have a problem with this in your compositions, perhaps you should start off by allowing yourself a "buffer zone" of space on the side, or draw a few thumbnails before doing a detailed sketch.

BTW, I wouldn't change anything else, from her browline to her gaze. I would just fix the anatomy and give her a bit of "breathing room."