This is excellent for a brand-new painter, Elijah. I presume that you've sketched before but just not used color, or are you totally new to art itself? You certainly did a great job with the shape of the face and some of the shadows in the skin. The hair needs more depth and texture, especially on the chin and brows, but I don't think I could have done as well with acrylic, which seems hard to use and rather unforgiving to me. Oil's my medium and you can lay something down and then mess around with it if you choose. Anyway, congratulations.
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