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But to suggestions, first thing if you want to sell your stuff: Better presentation.
Get better scans (or photos?) - this is blurry, and it looks like there's a shadow on the lower part. Also consider cropping differently, with either including the paper edges on all sides, or removing them everywhere.
Then the image itself.
The background over all seems a bit muddy. If rocks, I'd have suggest blue shale for this motive, to make the orange fox really stand out.
The tail doesn't seem to be connected to the fox, but just laying in front of him, since its right end is too far to the left of the image. Not exact matches for the pose, but some idea...: [link] [link] [link]
His forelegs seem a bit small, but the real problem is that they're too dark for the rest of the image. They're nearly black and look flat since they lack shading; I think that would have worked if you had used comic style outlines, but not like this.
Fox eyes are golden or yellow, with slit pupils, and I don't think the overall style is cartoony enough to make all-black bug-eyes work. Either way, it'd look better if there was a highlight on the eyes. (I bought white ink specifically for smallstuff like that.)
Looking at the orange part of the fur, it seems like you tried to do shading by pressing harder with your pencil in the same or a similar colour; try layering other colours instead.
I went to a drawing course recently in which the instructor told us that for shadows we should use a layer of dark blue or violet over the colours (and put another layer of colours, if it became too blue), since sunlight generally is yellow.
I'd suggest that after dissolving the pencils, you go back again with a sharpened pencils and add a bit more shading and structure. The fur texture of the tail looks very nice.
I like the texture of the background, seems ancient like. ^^
Tidy up them well would works, it's a great piece. Keep up the good work!
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Most of what I can say have been said. My only qualm is that the fox seems abit blurry although that could have been your scanner. The shading on the fox is a little too saturated, IMO
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