Still looks good.

This looks pretty cool. It looks like someone wearing some plastic hair or something. At least, I'm hoping that was your intention cause I like to think of it like that ^^;.

I adore the way you used "off" colors to accentuate her features. It so really works... I'm telling you... IT WORKS.

woah this is just great...

I love the colors you used! Also, this does look finished. Very artistic, forget realism! I like it this way!

cha~! you're really good :D I love your style, it's so aweosme :)

Thanks all for the comments. I have mixed feelings about this one - I don't completely dislike the end result (though I ran out of space before I got started on the hair again), but it was really a cop out as I reverted back to a style that was comfortable to me. I wanted to paint once again in the style of my earlier picture, and this time things just didn't seem to click like they did before. I think part of it is because I went even bolder this time with the contrast - the last time I built up more gradually with the tones. I also think it was a mistake to go with a celebrity before I had this technique down since I started becoming too concerned about having some sense of likeness (the last one doesn't resemble the person in the photo, but that didn't bother me since I didn't know who he was and didn't have a very good feel for how he looked). That also made me start thinking more about lines again which is something I wanted to avoid. The last one also had very prominent shadows and I could feel the form coming out of them even when I was just painting with two colors. I ended up redoing most of this picture and became a slave to the photo again. I'm going to have to keep trying harder before I can get this technique down.

This dude is smart.

I keep coming back to this to look at the eyes. The whole thing works but I think the eyes are magnificent.

Yes yes, quite so. I would most assuredly agree.