gesture painting WIP

I need to practice more gesture drawing so I did some and I chose this one to paint it was only 2 hours worth of time so I should finish it by this weekend

self portrait 12

I finally got the motivation and enthusiasm that I lost since I got back from San Francisco and I really need to start kicking my own ass if I want to meet my 50 self portraits this year (I wanted 100 but When i get to 50 I'll see how I feel ) I really want to spend the time I need to get these self portraits to my level of completion anyway this one took about 4 or 5 hours in photoshop I'm including the reference photo it was hard without good lighting well at least I learned something about lighting.