Watercolor art transformation

I bought a new sketchbook for pencil sketches since I figured that's what I'd mostly have time for these days. And watercolor if I feel like it, although the plan is to stick mainly to sketches. Well, I guess that didn't work since I ended up transforming even that to a digital artwork.

Here's the pencil sketch I made earlier while listening to an online course on LinkedIn

I then proceeded to paint a bit with watercolor. Since this is not watercolor paper and since I used my cheap watercolor set which is more chalky in texture, the colors are not as vibrant as they'd normally be on cold pressed paper.

She was cute enough for me but I felt like I could do something more, so I uploaded this to my sketchbook pro app on my phone and began to paint in using the color picker tool. I noticed that it began to take on a sculpted look.

I liked that so I continued some more. Switched up on the background and more

Until I finally landed on the finished piece which I like

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