Self Portrait skin tone practice

Bleh, this is based off of a distorted picture I took in photobooth. I was trying to work on some skin tones but it looks a little flat. Lacking alot of contrast. Just posting this because I thought it would be interesting and perhaps I could get a crit from a few people. Took about an hour and half ish?


So I got a little frustrated, and walked away from the piece for a bit. Then I got mad at myself and came back to rework it, this is the next stage of the piece.


Then a little bit of creative freedom.The title of the piece if I continue with the theme will be "The Birth of the First Dragon"

It's Still a WIP...perhaps I'll finish it for next Tuesday.
The first image and the last two images are about 2 hours apart.