Tim Clarke

I hope I’m not too late mentioning this but it popped into my head late last night.
I’ve just checked and the product description says that it has 64 GB eMMC and a “Mechanical Hard Drive of 0 GB size”, so that’s only 64GB of local storage and I don’t think that will be large enough for much more than web browsing.
A Windows Home installation is around 25 GB, and when you add things like application installs, restore points, downloads, temporary/cache folders and virtual memory pages (etc. etc.) that 64 GB is going to fill up very quickly.
Saving stuff to the cloud will probably help a bit – as long as you have ‘permanent’ internet access – but I have no idea how well the Affinity apps work with cloud storage.
Adding an external hard drive would probably help but that means extra expense and external drives are easier to break/lose (especially with teenagers).
I could be wrong, and it could be absolutely fine, but it’s worth checking to see what’s what before purchasing.

Thanks retrograde. I was out for most of today, and I think stepping away from it has helped. Yes, I think building up the shadows beneath the nose will work, and I realised too that I had accidently removed shadow work beneath the left eye (left to us, Zoe's right eye) so that side of her face is looking a little flat. I haven't had time to work much on it today, but fixing that helped a little, as did shortening the nose just a wee bit.
Thanks for the tip of using multiply. I just looked it up, and it's probably something I should be using instead of the skin tones document palette I set up. I already did a little work on Emily's skin, but it's not too late to try the multiply blend on her skin instead. Thanks.
I showed them both today. Zoe hates it and refuses to look at it! But she's eighteen, and tells me she hates that photo (in fairness she's got quite a strange pose --- one she probably thought was "grown up" at the time). Emily hugged me and said "I love your picture, Uncle Tim." Not sure how to take that. She might be only ten years old, but she learned the arts of sarcasm and being patronising years ago! Well for a first effort, I don't think it's too bad so far (I'll probably look back in a year and cringe!).