Digitally colored male portrait

As promised, i am going back to my drawings and coloring them one by one. This one i shared about 7 days ago. Now i painted it in photoshop.
I found that its more fun to paint in photoshop rather than clip studio paint.
I am not very happy with the skin color though. I am struggling to add lighter skin color because the background is a white page which is also light.
I am gonna have to find a way around that to paint lighter skin tones.

Here are some process shots:

Reference image of this drawing.