Digital Portrait painting of a Hive blogger in my own style

I was going through some art post today and i saw the post of @gatolector where he showed his art process of his own picture. He also shared his insta account and i visited that and realized he has quite an unique cartoonish type art style.

Anyway, what attracted me most is his picture, i really liked the pose and emotion so i asked him if i could use his picture and draw that in my style.... He agreed and i have been working on that since then...

I took some things and added a few things into that, overall i think it came out better than i expected.... it doesn't look like him at all but that's okay because that wasn't my intention....

Here are some process shots and description:

I started by sketching with a sketch brush.... I used the rhythm lined method to determine the face structure. Struggled a bit with the hand though....

I chose this square shape brush with no texture to start painting and shading... Choosing colors were a bit difficult because usually i go with a lot darker than this but i thought it would be good for a change....

At the end, i couldn't properly shade the hand so after an hour of failed attempt i decided to use a texture brush and fill it with lightened color... Then, i added some glowing leaves on his face and on the side of his lips.
Later i used this same leaf with some blur in the background and foreground....

Whoever, you are, viewing this, i hope you liked it...

Its midnight now, so Goodnight all....