SHE'S SO CUTEEEE i love this so far! the way you drew her is wonderful!
i love that you were mindful of how her eyes look (the round shape and 5 eyelashes), most people just do whatever with her eyes when they draw her.

and dont worry about how quickly or slowly you make progress, i dont mind it taking a while at all. like i seriously dont care how long it takes, the important thing to me is you dont stress yourself out trying to work on it. :^) the irl stress youre under is enough, no need to further wear yourself down with worrying about this. take it easy bud and dont worry about how long this takes! youll get it done whenever, whether that's a month from now or 6 (or more) it's perfectly fine.

also im sorry myself ive yet to comment on your dragon inktober wip (about the horn angle), ill do that sometime. stuff's been worse with my dad lately, today we found out he's got spots on his brain and they're affecting him in multiple ways... worst thing i think ive ever seen, it's so horrifying to me i cant fully wrap my mind around it. i wish the docs could get the spots burnt off /right now/ but they cant... theyre workin on things but i feel like stuff could get worse in the meantime because his cancer's extremely aggressive.

cancer sucks so much ughhh, especially pancreatic cancer cause even today with much better treatments it's still an almost guaranteed death sentence.

i dont like wearing bows or anything of the sort (haha i dress like a guy, i dress and apparently act like one...) but im tempted to fashion up a little purple bow/ribbon to wear on a wrist (dunno which), in the context of cancer, purple ribbons are for pancreatic.

(in other contexts, purple is for both alzheimer's and domestic abuse awareness)

oh i forgot to talk about marissa's hair in the first comment:

if it helps, i modeled her hair coloring after the "frosted" manes that some dun horses have, though her hair's deviated from that a little now. it used to be strongly cream colored in the center and more red in the edges/sides, now it's more even-- a little less red in the edges/sides and a little less cream in the center.

when you do the cream, dont be afraid for the light hairs to overlap, when i color her hair i make the light hairs overlap a fair bit in the center and have them be more random and stray-like on the sides/edges. :^)

i still love this

marissa looks so dang cute here :')