Found a beautiful portrait photo by Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk that I wanted to redraw as an exercise and add more color to the original, weak color always being one of my problems.
Created in Clip Studio Paint.
Final Image
Draw eyes and block in skin. I always do the eyes before the face as they have the highest contrast. They give you a reference for values around them
Finished the block in
Hair and Face blended
Hair Detailed
Face detailed and re-blended, background blocked in