This piece I've spent a lot longer on the past few nights, trying to create a concept totally from memory. So I started to create a fantasy like character, but focusing just on the face/head. Again no reference was used to produce this. Below are some images of my gradual development process.
Overall I'm pretty chuffed with this considering I've only had my wacom since last wed. I did reach a point though where I was stuck on how to flesh out the face of the character, I just couldn't seem to get the tones or shadowing/lighting to look natural. I don't even think this piece is like perfect or anything, more time spent I could probably make it even better. But it's bloody tiring after 5 hours or so...