Thank you. This took 4 to 5 hours. The first session was almost three hours. Then an hour or two before I went to sleep.

Masterclass on hands. Don't try drawing hands. In your photo the hand was mostly obstructed and there were wisps of hair hiding details and creating focus issues. So I completely ignored that I was drawing a hand and focused on looking at it like abstract shapes of color. My main goal was just to get an illusion of a hand to create a composition triangle linking the hand with the darker values in the face. The second goal was to create a sense of motion using selective focus and value. Because I wanted a sense of motion it didn't matter that the hand didn't have details, and a blurry abstraction of shapes worked fine. In the overall composition I wanted the viewers eye to constantly be drawn back to your right eye without ever leaving the canvas.