This is the third time I'm trying to post this. I always noted something that was off and needed to be fixed. Then I had to wait again for paint to dry and take a new photo. For some reason my old scanner with vista's scanning software made horrible job...

Aaanyway, lots of stuff to say but nothing important so just skip if you wish.

This my second acrylic portrait ever and the first one was just in black and white so there was no color mixing involved (although ivory black and titanium white makes this slightly bluish tone...) I have no idea how one should work with acryl colors, you know, "properly" so I kind of just experimented while doing. I have one book but it focuses on landscapes so I tried to apply those teachings into this portrait. In the end I just worked layer by layer going from lighter tones to darker because it's easiest for me. It all based on rather rough sketch I made. Go check my website for some wip images to get the idea

Something that I love in traditional mediums is the textures brushes (and, in this case, water) make and the way you can be more broad-minded. You know, cameras are for photorealism and when workin in digital I tend to spend too much time on wrong details.

I'm in a hurry so forgive me the possible typos. I might update this a little later today. I just wanted to get some feedback since I've spent long time on this already so you better like it

Update: I'm back. Thanks for comments and faves so far. Some additional info: this is made on regular A4 sized sketch paper and yes water makes the paper all curly. I have plans to make some minor updates on background but not for now. I need to work on something else first - I've watched this for too long.
I also uploaded closeup image to my site!