Lion Pencil Drawing and Digital Hand Painted Portrait

I have up until now, always worked digitally to paint my pet portraits. I have also done some drawing digitally, but not a lot. I have fancied doing some traditional drawings for a while and so I went out and bought myself everything I needed to draw traditionally. Below is a digital hand painted portrait and beneath that is a drawing of the same Lion.

Lion Digital Hand Painted Portrait

This is the first traditional drawing I have done in years. It is the same Lion painted above. I must say that I am not happy with it at all, to me, it's just not good enough! 

Having said that, this is a scanned image and the actual drawing is much, much nicer than it looks here on screen and everyone who has seen it disagrees with my misgivings. 

I have completed several drawings since doing this and they are improving each time. 

In the next few days, I will posting them too.

Any comments will be appreciated. Tell me what you think.