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It's pretty hard to give "tips" to someone working at such an extraordinary level of draftsmanship. You could change nothing on this and it would still be right on top of the game.
Perhaps rather than tips, a suggestion about how you might push this fine drawing just that tiny bit more. This would be in the area of contrast between value areas, and the effect that increasing or decreasing contrast has in creating depth and form.
The two areas I'm looking at:
1-- Darkening the value of the neck (the loose skin or "wattle") a little will push it back underneath the beard (or conversely, bring the bearded chin forward a bit).
2-- Progressively darkening the value of the fur collar as it goes up over the shoulders, and even largely losing the top edge of that collar against the background, will help define the roundness of the form and suggest the recession of the shoulder tops.
In combination, these modifications will, I think, bring just that little bit extra focus to bear on the face, and bring the head slightly forward in the kind of hunch that I would expect to see in this figure.
Very nice work.
Cheers
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