Progress with painting

I did a little face stuff at work in pencil earlier - still a mind-numbingly boring and tedious project... But I'm hoping that if I start doing it in pencil, it'll kind of become more like doodling while on the phone.

I felt like getting in some painting tonight. been a little while, and I don't want to slow down that skill's progress while it's picking up pretty well.

Still a work in progress, but I'm at a good stopping point just before midnight tonight.

I'm tempted to leave a lot of the undetailed parts as they are (the ears; the neck; the edges of the face from the mouth out), just as a trick to help direct the focus - plus, when zoomed out, or squinting, my mind fills in quite a lot of detail for me with what's already there. Didn't notice how hard the lines where in the cheeks from the nose to the mouth... I'll need to smooth that out a little - probably widen inward to blend into the upper lip a bit.

Here's a 2 step gif from the previous save to this one.