this looks great! i dont know how you do that shading but it works so well

This is an impressive piece of work; I love the contrast you achieved with this palette. 

Another really interesting pose and angle! The details are so well rendered and beautifully brought to life. You've deployed the more saturated tones so well.

I wanna do it for fun, but I lack the time. Perhaps when I finish the weekly challenge. I think it would be awesome if we could do them all, maybe even get them as reference images for lospec

Haha only do it if you find it fun. I don't think the judges are actually using any of these for their decision making. But the palettes submitted are all very high quality and so it's very joyful to put them to use

Amazing as always, the lips and eyes are perfect! I wish I could say I'll help but I never did portraits before (just some weird ones for testing my own palettes for the comp) but I promise I'll try!