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Hi Adam,
It's not a bad start you made. The difficulty in this is that this could be a lucky shot. Did you paint in acrylic paint before? You felt free to do something else than the precise pencil drawings you make otherwise (I haven't seen those). My question is, do you aim at a very precise way of painting eventually, or do you want to go further in a more free approach like this first painting in oil that you made?
My feeling when I see this, (and I haven't seen details, I have to judge your work from a relatively small reproduction) is that I see some nice things happening in the free brushwork, which I would regret when it gets lost in a very precise way of painting. For example, the way the hair is painted on the right on her shoulder is very expressive. But a free approach like this becomes a bit dangerous when too much of the definition gets lost in the brushwork. It takes a lot of practicing to make an approach like this really work. When I see the lips and other features of the face, my feeling is that more accuracy in the placing and definition of the features would be welcome. The shadows are very dark in her face. Some more definition would also be welcome there.
I would aim for a variety in how you paint. So try not to lose too much of the expressive handling of the paint, on the other hand, in painting the eyes, lips and the face in general a more precise approach would be welcome.
Greetings,
Peter
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