light and shadow pattern faces

Congrats, this looks incredibly deliberate and purposeful.

The portrait on the left looks at first impression like it would have lost too much definition around the nose, but the contrast with the portrait on the right makes clear, that this was a narrative decision to emphasize how overexposed she is in the spotlight. Her features actually start to shatter from the violence of the bright light directed at her. Instead of contemplating your lines, the mind of the viewer drifts off to decipher the situation the girl finds herself in. My eyes started to jump between the portraits for comparison, which suddenly added a feeling of motion. Not of her, but of the wandering or pulsing light in contrast with her frozen expression. She is clearly focused on something, but otherwise hard to read. Is she just in a concert hall, watching what happens on stage, or is she herself in potential danger? I love how you reduced the details to a minimum, and also the general tension the piece conveys. This is defintely stuff people will put up on their walls.