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Judson!
How disheartening this must be for you!
Hang in there and keep on improving your skills! I can see you were looking at the big basic shapes and did OK. Design is a biggie for better painting also. It just takes a lot of time and patience. When people have portraits painted they want it to be an accurate and flattering representation of how they perceive themselves to others. This is not an easy thing to do at all! Marvin Mattelson has told us all on a few occasions that portrait painting is much more difficult profession to study than that of the studies of a brain surgeon. It's a discipline first, then it's an expression! You'll do fine just keep at it.
BTW. The Paxton palette, which is what a lot of portrait painters are starting to adapt is good for any race. You just mix that palette and pretty much that is all is needed for some beautiful flesh tones. Black, East Indian, Asian, you name the race, there are all the colors you need before you!
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