Dawn of a beautiful friendship.

Well, I've made a bit of a return after a massive lax in art This is mainly due to school and having a rather large increase in homework. I've only managed to fit in a bit of digital here and there, which I was put of recently by not saving for a stupid mount of time, then losing 3-4 hours of work as my computer crashed. Me=Idiot=Repeat=More lost work > Damn windows 8...  Anyway, excuse it if I am a little rusty with shading. With it being the holidays now (almost 4 weeks. Whoop!) I should be making a bit of a comeback. This is dedicated to a dear friend of mine for their birthday. 

A small note: I did not do anything for the sky, as it is supposed to be a sunrise, and I do not know how to draw one with pencil (skywise) I know that objects are set in high contrast, casting long shadows etc. I could not find any tutorials on the internet. If anybody could give me some tips or direct me to a tutorial that would be wonderful. Thanks.

Drawn on cheap (although pretty good) paper with free pencils that came with the cheap, pretty good paper
I really need to invest in some new equipment for sketching don't I?