Portrait and realism study

Finally finished, my second digital painting! ^^

So, this week (as I'm on holidays) I try to improve myself in digital painting. This time I study mainly photorealism (skin/hair texture and eyes) reproducing entirely this photo with Photoshop CS6.
I had planned to do it on approximately 8 hours but the skin and hat's texture were very hard to paint ! So I've done it in 10 hours.

I enjoyed to paint it 'cause I really like this picture, you can find the original there: AngelikaZbojenska's gallery (angelikazbojenska.deviantart.c… )

You can see my progress here : fav.me/d632d3u

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• 04/21/2013 - 04/26/2013 •
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PS: Some people asked me to share my PSD file ---> avalonne65.deviantart.com/art/…