Nice job. All the elements are there. I find the liquify tool invaluable for learning and improving observational skills, understanding where I’m off, and how to correct things for future practice. Very small changes in facial position can have big impact on likeness. Here’s a few minor changes I adjusted on your drawing. The lines are yours. Main things were shifting the right side of nose and corner of mouth over, raising top of the ear and pencilling to add the shape of the eyebrow. Flipping the canvas also helps to see things that may be off that aren’t as easily visible in a single view. Hope this helps! Keep going!

So i think you're having a similar problem to what I had. For me, if I don't have larger 'building blocks' of the face, its hard to know the spacing between features and they can feel tilted or 'floating in space' similar to how the mouth and nose are too far to the left. For me the side plane of the face is very helpful for placing features at that angle. I'm not sure how helpful this is but i overlayed the shapes I like to use when blocking out the face. I start with a very easy, blocky shapes that can then be more refined into how you want it to look since for structure its super helpful to go big -> small. ( Yellow are some of the planes of the face, blue eye socket, purple eyelid, etc etc i thought it might be easier to see in multiple colors)

Hey Adrian. Don't be nervous! We're all students here at Proko, so welcome! I just want to start by saying this is a heroic effort, my friend, not awful at all. Especially for someone who is coming at it as a fairly raw beginner. You're seriously on the right track, even if it doesn't feel like it, so be proud to be where you are (at the start) and be excited to know where you're going (so much learning and growth about to happen!). Awesome that you're using an overlay to check your drawing. Such a fantastic tool. There's not much I can say about your accuracy that the overlay tool won't, so I'm not even going to go there except to say the ability to see these things without aid can take a while to develop. Be patient with yourself. You're already recognizing major shapes and putting down mostly proper values (even the inward angle of her eyes. Well spotted!), so you're not too far off. Just a few things here and there, but overall, you're getting it. You might benefit from learning some structure/block-in techniques to keep you from accidentally skewing the features as you did here, though. The Loomis method is pretty popular for this sort of thing. Plenty of vids around talking about that! Paper texture is really a personal thing. Heavy tooth can make awesome effects that are not possible with other papers, but it can be hard to control, especially with soft charcoal pencils. I prefer to stay on the smoother side of things, as I don't have to work as hard for subtle blending/transitions, but you shouldn't be afraid to experiment to find what suits you. If you have any questions, don't be afraid to reach out, either to me or to the community at large. Some great people roaming around on here. Good luck! Have fun!