Hey Lo! Great job on this, I can tell who it is off the bat, and it has a great style to it. The biggest things that stand out to me are the shape relationships. If you look at the mouth, it looks like it's from an entirely different face from the eyes, same as the nose and chin. It might help a bit to try and wrap your forms more. In the crude draw over I did below, you can see that I'm treating the mouth as a sphere sitting on the surface of the face. And eye sockets are concave (cuts into) on the surface of the face. When you look at it that way, it'll be easier to see that the eyes are a little bit too big. Or at the very least, one is significantly bigger than the other. I'd highly recommend checking out @sinix's channel and his video called "Painting like a Sculptor". He does a way better job explaining it than I do here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC3OxonJcXQ I hope this helps, and keep up the good work! This is an awesome portrait! -Kristian

Hey, I think that you made the eyes too big, the rest of the face looks alright proportion wise, if you try to go for a realistic-ish look, then try to make the eyes way smaller, you should definantally define where your light is coming from, even if it is not in the reference, there should be a clear understanding of where the lights and the shadows are, other than that, maybe try to go for a little bit more detail on the transition of the hair skin, so it dosen't look too "blocky". cheers.

I liked the overlaid noise layer on the 2nd picture, I do it myself too!:) Maybe just a little strong? I usually prefer grayscale noise to colour noise tho. Matter of taste I suppose:) I know its just a small thing:D

In terms of critique iI think it would help to look at values for example in this specific painting while you have your shadows correctly cast there isn't a clear light source being defined in the shading and I think you may need more shadow on the right side of the face some portrait studies you could do is looking at Rembrandt and see how he does his shadows a specific portrait that may help would be the one specifically titled "Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret" it features a similar light source and even though the style may not look like similar to your portrait the basic concepts of values still apply. Also, I'm not sure who the YouTuber is I'm gonna guess is it HasanAbi?