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Hey Franklyn. It can be difficult for people to give you some specific tips if you post so many images at the same time so... in general, in any forum you post to, I'm not saying it's wrong of you, but don't expect something too useful if you post like this.

Most people are more accustomed to pointing out specific proportional problems and details which can be useful for you at your level of drawing.

So I give you this advice, which may not be immediately useful for you now but is good to keep in mind for the years ahead of you: developing your drawing skill is not a process of training skilled hands. It is developing a disciplined mind.

A good artist sees in ways that most people do not. Where most people see big eyes and spiky hair, a good artist sees lines and curves, angles and shapes, alignments and ratios, tones and balances, emotions and moods, and most importantly, the bigger picture.

So where most people just see big eyes, you have to ask "how big? does it cover 1/3 of the face? 1/2? 1/4? 1/8? 1/16?" Where most would see only spiky hair, you have to ask "spiky in what way? spiky in what directions? 60°? 90°? 30°? more-or-less how many spikes?" Where people only see an arm, you have to ask "is it a straight line? is it one curvy line? or several lines? how curvy is each curve? how long is each curve? what do these curves and lines correspond to in real life?" And after you've asked all these questions, you must then ask "how does it all fit together?"