Jason and Jordan

I see you like to do portraits. Try this...Instead of drawing outlines and then shade them in....just use a range of pencils from 3H to 8B to cover your grayscale. It looks as if you are using one pencil to manage your lights and darks which is making your drawings seem flat (the outlines don't help either). If you just keep in mind that nothing in reality has an outline and the range from black to white is very large, your drawings will look more like reality.

Keep it up!