WIP - Portrait and realism study

Finally finished, my second digital painting! ^^

Final pic: fav.me/d6327ib

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 done it in 10 hours.

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


I hope it will help someone !!

PS1: I used a special type of blur (on Photoshop CS6> filter> blur diaphragm)

PS2: Some people asked me to share my PSD file so there is the avalonne65.deviantart.com/art/…)