New painting and some thoughts on my artistic direction

Today I was looking at my Instagram feed and wondering what exactly makes my feed uniquely mine. So far I've said that I like experimenting and don't want to worry so much about some unique and distinctive style, but I'm beginning to want to have something more recognizable as my work. I found out that one thing that's quite uniform in my art is my use of a wide variety of colors. That's a good thing but I want more.

I've been thinking about how to change this and so I've spent some time just drawing different features with different brushes and I'm nowhere close to getting a better idea of what I want to do yet. I want to draw at learnt ten new pieces of art with shared features and with the same color pallette and style. I can anticipate some struggle already from me because it's quite difficult for me to focus but I think the hack here would be on doing those distracting things in pieces I will not be sharing online. I'll just leave that in my personal folder whilst polishing my new collection for public view.

Here's today's portrait

This was the original portrait before I did some minor edits with the hues and saturation.

I painted this digital portrait in sketchbook pro and on my phone. I decided to use the airbrush tool just for a change in addition to my usual brush.
I also used the neon brush and modified it to get the unique dots which I've grown to like. It's easier to draw something like that than drawing ears 😄.

I deleted my progress shots and thought I'd be able to find them again in my recently deleted folders but that didn't work out so I don't have much else to say except that I started as usual with a sketch. I also painted predominantly in cool blues for the skin. I also set the layer to color dodge for the lips.

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