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I also would love to see this category. It is a tough lesson that I'm working my way though now: what to paint. We all have closets full of photographs and often that is a beginner's (certainly, mine) first source material.
I don't think you ever completely crash and burn a painting, because the experience of pushing the paint around teaches you something every time.
From a great book, "Art and Fear," by David Bayles and Ted Orland: "One of the basic and difficult lessons every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential... The point is you learn how to make your work by making your work, and a great many of the pieces you make along the way will never stand out as finished art. The best you can do is make art you care about--and lots of it!"
Most of the posts responding to this painting seem to agree that the pose has potential but the source photograph is too flawed to use as a reference. I would suggest these are very talented artists responding and that you should return to your client for more studies, more photographs.
I've found that as a beginner I'm in such a rush to get to the canvas that I sacrifice the foundation of the work: tonal studies, thumbnails exploring light, etc. I'm starting to see why it takes so long to paint a piece in oil on canvas!!
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