Thanks! I'm not sure who it is actually, I found the picture on a tumblr page for portrait drawing references. Don't think I quite captured the unique details of the subject's face but that's something that improves with practice I guess.
Is this Lupita Nyong'o? Lovely job! Personally I like the added blue outline/shadow, it makes for a nice graphic added to the piece.
you did great! if you allow me a little critique, I think the blue shadow on the background is not really necessary.
Thanks Cels, the dark teal I mostly just imitated from the reference, and I noticed the cheek was quite red in the photo so I kind of turned that into the warm red + purple. And the pink/tan highlights I thought would be interesting since they kind of average out to a skin tone pink.
I'd love to understand how you used the colors here. The way you move between warmer and colder colors, hues towards red, purple and green, I just don't understand it. But I really like it.
nice palette, and the background shadow kind of works well here.