ナゼ訳

Uh...yeah...accidentally deleted my description there. Oops.
Anyway...
I need to practice facial expressions, and I need to practice digital paini I mean painting. So I had a brilliant idea: Practice facial expressions in Photoshop. Let's just ignore all the obvious flaws with that idea and get on with the meat of the story, shall we.
After about fifteen minutes of random doodling...this happened. Or, started to happen. It took another hour or so after that for the process to finish. I didn't do a gestural, which is why she randomly cuts off there.
As I was shading the eyeballs, I realized that I was basically doing shading like I do in Inkscape, only drawing the areas I want to shade with a tablet is so much easier and faster than painstakingly assigning each vector point and carefully teasing out each edge to just the right curve. Maybe I should remember this.
Maybe I should actually paint when I need to practice painting. Oops.

Also, I didn't use anywhere near as many layers as I did before. I remember I would spend so long just digging through piles of layers looking for the right one, even with detailed naming. This only has four layers, the background, and an invisible sketch layer. Mmm.

Edit: changed the background, because it bugged me.