Steve Buscemi (Seymour) Portrait

Here are the finished images. The above is literally just a cropped version of the drawing and the bottom has a simple and nice pink background that I'm enjoying a little too much.
I'm really really pleased with the results. It's made me believe in myself that I can draw as well as I want to and that I can still create realistic portraits.

Steve Buscemi (Seymour) Portrait PS Experimentation Screenshots

After finishing my drawing and scanning it in I decided to edit it on PS. My grasp of digital art as an Illustrator is still ridiculously limited so I just experimented with dropping in different textures to use as a background. Although I liked the effect, I found them too fussy for this particular project but I intend to make use of textures more often in my work as I love them.

Steve Buscemi (Seymour) Portrait Progress Shot

After watching Ghost World for the first time a few weeks and developing an obsession with it (in particular with the character Seymour), I decided to draw a portrait of Steve Buscemi's character.
I tend to keep to a strictly stylised simplified style these days and I wanted to see if I am still capable of the realistic portraits I loved creating when younger. Above are photos I took at different points of progress and you can see how it has progressed from a crude pencil drawing to a more stylised and detailed fine liner one.