As an amateur artist, may I suggest a few improvements

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Parents commissioned the grandad? Sounds like they were trying to raise his self-esteem.

Looks like grandad was painting his 18th century peasant ghost girl from his nightmares instead. Easy mistake to make honestly

It’s still very sweet though.

I mean, everyone is shitting on the painting, but we have no reference photo of OP at 16. We only have what little you can see in the profile photo.

Gramps did his best, it seems, and I'm all but certain he desperately wanted his grandkid to see his heartfelt try at it —likely knowing he'd fail in accurately representing their very soul with his sub-par but earnest spattering on canvas.

16, you say? That tracks.

Hot take: it's actually OP that fucked this self-portrait up, and they're so cowardly that they threw the poor bastard under the bus, instead. 🤷🏼‍♂️

My dad had paid someone to draw my portrait from a graduation photo. The drawing is horribly bad. It's also quite big and hanging on a wall at the center of the house so there's no chance one could avoid looking at it.

The painting looks objectively shitty, and yet, somehow you can’t help but feel that the eyes are following you

Profile picture is missing an eyeball

I think that the grandad misunderstood the commission and made a self-portrait.

Disappointed if her username hasn't changed to Flour.

Emmmm, flour chicken.

These are two different pictures, though. Does nobody else see this?

Looks like slop to me.

They should’ve commissioned an artist

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