Photoshop Newbie

After viewing some photoshop tutorials, I managed to come up with this. It's an avatar for a friend in IJ. It's my first and I guess it's not that bad. Now I've learned some photoshop I'll be doing avatars for fellow IJ at a price of 150k (negotiable) or donation money. The banner you might be still seeing now is a work I've done using Paint (windows 98) and have to admit that it's damn crappy not only because I used Windows98 but also that it was just some crops, copy and pasting no nothing. I will now be working on more pictures using photoshop to improve my skills and also to get the damn crappy banner to trash and get it replaced with something better.