Thats fantastic!
I find skintones very hard to get right. I like your use of blurring too. Gives it a watercolour feel to it.
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Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?,
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Cheers
It was phase I was going through about a year ago, doing portraits in tattyshop with the aim to achieve that 'watercolour' effect you noticed. The blurriness of it all is more down to my being more of a dabbler and less of an actual illustrator.
edit feathers are easier than skin

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