One of my most exciting portrait commissions. I took influence from @MelMade on his use of photoshop brushes on a monotone composition. Decided to take a friend of mine (thanks @Miranda!) and see what I could make of it.
Yes , I do trace the basic facial features on photoshop, but I then enhance and change up the eyes and tonalities so that it has my own style into it. The dreadlocks just added to the background element