Eileen, you have a lovely subject. Her gaze and the shape of her face simply speak to you 'look this way'. Just lovely!
As for the critique. There are a number of things that can be considered. First, the over all big shapes look good. I would double-check some distance like the space between upper lip and nose and the space between the nose and bottom of chin and between lip line and bottom of chin. Her chin seems a tad to small.
The hair does not look natural it gives the impression of stringiness spaghetti like all over. Remember hair is soft, big shapes and light accents.
The eyes, being that you are working from a photo there are dark areas that are black when one is looking at the actual model one can observe variations of shadow value. First your highlights within the eye are what are not placed correctly and are sending wrong direction signals. Eliminate these reshape pupils and correctly place highlight within the pupil.
One more thing, I would look at the area below the chin, the neck. The way it is painted it clashes with the face and it seem a bit flat. While there I would indicate better dimention to the sweater.
I hope I was able to help.
Best wishes,
mischa
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