I must say that I was searching for an inspiration example of how to make old skin on portraits not look messy and noisy, and here it is!

Cool portrait!

It lives! Super job on this :)

too much of the detail in the face seems to be causing banding :/  the result is it looks messier than it is on the pixel level. prettty cool though :)

:)

I imagine his body is under the cloth and that its actually a dress and it instantly becomes much happier.

Nice, love the cracked cheek regions