Just finished my first digital painting! Outside of Drawabox, I normally just doodle with a pencil on paper, but I recently challenged myself to complete a digital piece in order to get more familiar with the software and work flow. This one is a value study from a reference image. It took a lot of experimenting to figure out which tools to use to get the effect that I wanted, and even though I don't think I succeeded 100% in that effort, I'm still pretty happy with the final result. My only regret with this piece is that I wish I had captured the likeness of the reference better in the sketching phase before I moved on to values--compared to the reference, I can tell that my face is a little too thin and long.

Nevertheless, I am quite proud of what I was able to achieve with this painting. It was a lot of fun to try something that I normally never do, and I definitely learned a lot about working in digital. I'll definitely be doing more personal projects like this moving forward, and would highly recommend that others do the same!

Critiques are welcome :)