My first "realistic" face (Drawing/Experience)

This drawing, well, this face I did when I was 15 years old or so, I barely knew how to structure a face, in spite of taking a bit of having been in several drawing and painting workshops, well, I feel that for that at the time I did not have as much knowledge as I do now.

It was inspired by a photo of a very good friend of mine, when I saw the photo for the first time I thought "I would like to draw it", I asked her permission, because yes, I ask permission to draw people, that I know, clearly.

Use cream and beige color, for the background were blue colors, for the cat, it was a very soft black color, it looks gray, use brown and black colors for hair, an ultrafine marker for the delineation of the eyes, gray for the shirt.

My intention in drawing it was not that it was done at the end, I wanted it to be more like a very simple illustration but it came out a bit "realistic" (I put it in quotes, because I don't think it's that realistic but it goes a bit in that movement ), by showing it to people, they said that they liked it, that it had turned out well, that filled me a lot but it filled me more than the person who drew in question, liked my drawing of it, it was something that motivated me a lot keep doing it, despite, that I lost a bit in the course.

I leave here the original image, so you can compare the photo with the drawing (although obviously it is not identical and only has some aspects that it may seem, I did my best for that moment)