Jessica Alba - Speed Painting

This is a really lovely painting, honestly spoken!! Please do not misunderstand the following critique, since it is not about your painting, or your skills but about how you label things.

When you paint something (realtime) that takes you at least an hour to make (you wrote this one took you 7 hours), then it doesn't qualify as a speed painting any longer.
A speed painting is a study made within 20 minutes to 1 hour.
You made a FINISHED (and beautiful!!!!) illustration of Jessica Alba, which you did then speed up using video editing software.
Therefore it would rather qualify as a TIMELAPSE video.

I am pointing this out because a lot of young artists are getting confused by terms being used like that. They think that making a speed painting means that they have to make finished, complex illustrations within an hour, not realising how long the actual product took to make, and not realising that the initial purpose of making speed paintings is to study things and do that within a short timeframe so you focus only on essential things. This is a difference.

I am aware that a lot of people on Youtube are using the term "speed painting" because they see a lot of other people doing it, too.
This doesn't mean that it is good for young aspiring artists. You have a lot of reach and you could use that reach to not only show of your perfect skills, but inform people about the difference between finished illustrations (like yours) and speed paintings that are quickly made studies.

I hope that you understand my reason for making this comment and that you won't be upset with me.