Looking good Mr. Ploos. I think that in your using different colors in your line for your paintings that you will then at some point be able to integrate those as paint strokes as you are creating edges to forms within your subject. That means you can vary the weight of the line a lot, and/or you can use it as the starting point for the local color of the (face or hair or what have you) and paint inward.
I understand it must feel right now like you're a juggler keeping a couple bean bags in the air. Ultimately we will have you juggling all sorts of household objects, chainsaws, commemorative plates with the queen's face on it, cats, you name it. . . and all at once.
That means once you get to seeing an edge not so much as a trap line (tech term for an outline in typography within which there is color), you will begin to experience the joys of volume and tone.
But you done great, laddie.
Oh, as an aside about you losing your post because ArtRage forum software killed it, I have had that experience as well many infuriating times. So it's not just you. What I recommend is that before you click on it to post, select all the text and copy it. And only after you have it copied, then press post. It has saved me a lot of grief. This forum software is only fair to middlin. . .
But it's a grand forum and that's a fact. So I ain't complainin' overmuch. Just figured out a work around. 
"Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream
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