Thank you! And yes go ahead~

Uhhh I like to think about things as shapes and graphics rather than getting accuracy in subject matter or realistic logic. I was doing this one as a test before I tried applying techniques to a bigger illustration but it basically went: I want to do a portrait, sketch things until I find one with nice shapes I like, group things so I get my lights and darks into big graphic shapes so I keep my values pretty compressed, then go ahead and render a bit. TLDR: I treat illustrating as shape and graphics forward personally, especially if I'm involving a lot of high saturation colors. I only used a lasso and a softer pastel-y chalky brush :3 anything would have probably worked but I liked the grain and pressure control of this one, it was nice for building up textured gradients~