Criticizing my own art!

Soo I wanted to do this to so I can just list out the things I need to work on! 

1. Big eye disease, often I make the eyes like way too hugs. This may be because I started out trying to draw like anime and they got some nice sparkly eyes but now I'm not but I still do giant eyes. I usually go back and fix it with the lasso tool but sometimes it's still there.
2. Proportions, I've gotten better at face proportions as I have some guidelines but I definitely need to work on the body. I make the torso too long at time and also legs. The legs. 
3. Drawing without a reference, by this I mean placing line on the picture to follow. I got better at this though I just put this photo to the side or use no photo at all. 
4. Being scared of dark colors, when I shade or even when I make a background I don't always use the darkest of colors, this kind of makes the stuff blend together but in a bad way. I just don't like making the colors so dark. Need to work on this a lot 

Art examples: Instagram, Tumblr