Aesthetics My Unexpected First Faceup

I want to give that poor thing a hug! I like the tear but maybe try just using some paint/pastel for the color and then hit it with some gloss? Letting it sit flat, the 3D aspect of it makes it slightly distracting, and he has such a lovely face.

 

I find that it's always best to mix your own black rather than use black out of the bottle. You can mix ultramarine blue and burnt umber in various ratios to get cooler and warmer blacks, and you can tint them as well with a smidgen of whatever colors you like. Hand-mixed black gives so much more depth!

 

If you can dilute the black a little so it's not as stark, every other area has a soft look to it, which is great, I like the eyebrows and lids, the line work is good also on the eyebrow creases, if you try to soften the shade of black used slightly, it would help.
The blood tears concept is great with his gorgeous eyes, I love the expression on his face.
You did a great job. You don't need a ton of supplies, the primary colors are red blue and yellow, the foundation of every single colour and shade there is, I used to specialize in colour mixing, when on a budget, or in short supply, those three colours, and a clear medium or water, which is used to lighten the shade, produce pastels, silvers, golds etc...
Also, what the poster above is talking about which is cool by the way, are base colours. If you want a cold black, you would use a black made up of mostly blue, blues are cool color.
If you wanted a black closer to a darkest brown, sable, umber etc, you add red until you achieve that, reds being warm colours. Actually Umber, is red and yellow concentrated..
the formula for black, is red, yellow and blue.
Blue black, use more blue aka blue base
Black with red base, use more red
In reality, we use base colours also to neutralize tones, we don't like on our canvas, for example..if you dyed your hair black, and it looks green, you would have to add red to the new formula to eliminate green.
Overly pink areas, on a face, you can rub a little green correction stick, before the concealer.
The theory behind this is, back to the primary colors, one color will neutralize, the product of the others.
Not trying to give a colour lecture, just hope that helps.