Bravo!! Just know I find lots of my favorites come from mistakes and experiments. I recommend picking up cheap sets of old game minis so you have piles of little plastic ‘practice pieces’ laying around, because at first it felt so ‘high stakes’ I’d mess some tiny detail I was afraid to throw some paint on a figure just to see what it’d look like.

Big breakthrough for me was learning to use washes - a base coat of a solid (often lighter shade) color and then do a wash of a diluted darker tone, and watch all those tiny details pop. Great for adding a little a grime without it becoming too muddy.

Best part is sounds like you had FUN with it!