I continued adding the base colours on the face, created more levels for the neck and eye. At this stage I used exclusively a soft round brush and the blending brush without scattering.
Then I started on the collar using a hard round brush both for painting and blending, worked more on the eyes (added some reflections and duplicated the iris on the left to make the eye on the right).
The shadows in the original photo were pretty harsh so I tried to soften those a bit by blending.
I started on the necklace and it was actually pretty easy, all I did was paint one pearl and then duplicate the rest, rotating, scaling and changing a few shadows and reflections here and there where needed. I placed them and decided to do the chain that keeps them together later.
Next, after trying to smooth out the neck a bit, came some work on the hair. I put in a dark base, as I would in a traditional painting, and with a small hard round brush with shape dynamics/size jitter set to pen pressure and other dynamics/opacity jitter also on pen pressure, I started drawing strand by strand, some very fine and others fatter until I got a nice “hair” looking base. I then slightly blended that base.
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