I finally finished this study yesterday. It took me over a week, but I'm so happy with the result! Especially given I've never done a portrait with oil paints before, and the last time I did a portrait with _any_ paint was... probably in art GCSE, where they would have undoubtedly forced me to do something weirdly abstract because apparently just painting things realistically isn't good enough.

Anyway, I sort of messed up the colours a bit. Everything's too vivid except his face. This is because I figured the original would have been brighter, so I enhanced the reference photo a bit, and somehow managed to go even brighter than that. I possibly would have got the right colour just working from the original reference!

It did give me good practice balancing lights and darks, though. This is something I'm not that good at usually, as I tend to drift towards using midtones everywhere.

Now, cue me trying a portrait of a fictional character and screwing it up because the only reference is in my head :D