Frances Oneil's class - portrait

I arrived a bit late, so this was about 1.5 hours in class. I wanted to see how far I could correct things from memory, so I spent about 2 more hours in a coffee shop working on this without reference.

I read a useful tip that might be of interest to other digital painters. Try saturating your main skin color layer a little more than you usually would, and then add a new layer. Pick a low opacity airbrush in a dull grey / beige and paint over the saturated skin with the dull color. It gives the image a little more life (you can think of it as a layer of dead skin cells masking the more intense skin tones).