Touched Male face - trying to capture what I like about AI pics

This is the last panel of the chapter I’ve been posted so far of my webtoon. I wanted to put my best effort in it. Expectation was high and so was disappointment. So I redrew that face a dozen of times…

I recently found AI images were very easy to read and manifest clearly some fundamentals I lack. So I tried to capture what I enjoy in them.

The guy looked dumb and ugly and I made so many tries at redrawing him… here are some trial and errors…

Then I realized squinting my eyes, shadow and light were distinguished clearly… values were too much scattered.
So I added a darkening layer to separate shadow clearly.
As obvious as it may seem (I hope it does), I had to force myself doing this. At first I thought this was really a wrong move but I decided to trust the theory more… so it felt like a blind jump…

Fast forward because I have too much steps…

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I think the end result turned out rather excellent!

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Thank you so much!
Recently I have made a point of redoing until I feel I reached what I wanted or at least, the best I could do, before moving on to another drawing !

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What a picture, wow! That’s great!

Michelist

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Thank you so much! I hope I can get next one (much, much) faster

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I suspect that this is exactly what will happen, because now you know what the difficulty was.

Michelist

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Thanks you’re very nice !