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Behind my smile

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"There's only hate
There's only tears
There's only pain
There is no love here
Oh, so what will you do?
There's only lies
There's only fears
There's only pain
There is no love here
Broken down like a mirror smashed to pieces
You learned the hard way to shut your mouth and smile
If these walls could talk they would have so much to say
'Cause every time you fight the scars are gonna heal but they're never gonna go away.." 

this piece was made based on a big part in my childhood which was spent in foster care. a lot of people think there aren't any horrors being in foster care but there's a lot that people don't see because of the lies that are told and the fear a lot of children have and are to afraid to speak out or some adults just wont listen, that's not the case for everyone. but for me it was. 
the above lyrics are "no love" by simple plan, i thought it screamed all the things i used to feel being in foster care. 

Done in sketchbook pro6, on one layer, using a wacom bamboo tablet. 
time spent: 5 hours 
Reference photo shot by: 
Jill Greenberg
Image size
470x474px 1.23 MB
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Bushaqua's avatar
:star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Impact

This piece has an emotional appeal to it and after reading your description, one can say it comes straight from heart<img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/h/h…" width="38" height="15" alt=":hug:" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="160" title="Hug"/>
I myself have recently started doing realistic portraits and I have a fairly good idea of the amount of patience, time and effort you have to put in it especially doing the hairs which are lovely by the way.
The hairs are drawn great which I am still struggling with, the eyes are haunting and sad conveying the right emotions.
I feel the distance between the nose and lips are a little more and looks unbalanced and the lips could be further improved from both sides where the two lips meet. I was going to suggest taking a picture reference, but since you already used one and the link is not available, I can assume that may be the child in the picture also had that gap between her nose and lips.
Other than that a brilliant piece.
Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Keep up your fantastic work.
Best,
Bushra