Sybil Portrait

I've been slowly working on this since the end of last summer. It started off as a simple from-the-shoulder up portrait with a grey background but I posted it online for advice and someone did a paintover... or they like overlaid a photo ontop of her face or something but whatever they did suddenly my ok portrait looked almost like a photo. That got me motivated to basically start over and using that paintover as a target of quality I made it high res with the intention of doing it all photo-realistic like with pores and individual hairs and everything.

So I did that, then I thought I could at least give her a body, then I posed her. Then I thought "well I'm this far in, might as well go all the way" so I started on a background as well. During this whole process I never wanted to shrink the image down to add more to it, I instead just kept expanding while keeping the dpi locked. This jpg is about 15% of the actual size... it's nuts.

So I dunno


Edit: I dont' have time right this second, but I had an idea to move some things around in the bottom left which I think will make for a better picture over all... stay tuned for that i guess?