>>5553921Good try. Here's a few pointers that might help you in the future.
In real life hair is not a blob of blurred colour so when painting I find it best to use a lot of thin lines to mimic it. You've kinda got it going on in a few spots but it's not consistent.
You've also done a common beginner mistake of aligning the facial features to the wrong plane. If you see the original image the head is tilted 25 degrees sideways which offsets the eye line so it won't be parallel with the canvas.
The skin could use some smoothing. The strokes on the face are distracting. A nifty trick I do is I use the smudge tool after I've laid out the values and smooth it out. Don't use it everywhere though. A rule of thumb is to smooth the core shadow but leave the cast shadow sharp.
The hands are something really tricky even for me so I understand why you didn't put too much work there. However I always encourage people to get out of their comfort zones and push their limit. You level up so much faster this way.
Also don't forget to follow the form of the object when your putting down paint strokes. Use the strokes to describe the shape of the object.
Lastly never use pure black or pure white in an image. I noticed you've done it in a few spots. It usually good practice to bump them up 5 for darks and bring down brightness to 250.
There's a few other bits and pieces you could improve but these are the main ones.
Also don't forget to practice construction and proportion. Don't use style as a crutch.
