Detailed Colour Practice

Bev sent us some links to things that could be helpful, one of them being a list of tutorials. I read one (Yeah, I actually wasn't stupid and stubborn for a change) about making skin look good. It said that spackled brushes are good.
I thought I'd give this brush a try and started drawing a picture, cycnically spackling it a little, and.

Well, I quite liked how it looked.
Instead of giving up and scrapping the picture as often happens when trying new styles, I kept going with it. I didn't even use lines in the end. All in all, I was quite happy with how it turned out. It's no masterpiece, but it looks a little more passable than most of my other stuff.

I had a go at doing some lighting but it didn't work out. Any time I tried an interesting colour (Mostly blue) it looked smeary and weird. Maybe I'll get it some other day, but for now this is good enough.