Psuedo-Study

So I have tried to upload this pic about 15 times now and every time there has been parts that are corrupted, which is frustrating me. Nonetheless I decided just to post this anyway, since the problem areas are not overwhelming.
        I have the idea that painting images is a great way to figure out how people structure their painting. This method can also teach the person doing the study a great deal about how they themselves paint. This is my attempt I found this really gorgeous painting on conceptart.org while browsing through a sketchbook, unfortunately firefox crashed on me and I lost to whom the painting belonged to, but after a little searching I found out who the original belongs to.
       Viktor Fetsch is his name and Oh Lawdy! is he amazing. 

Here is his version (above), I think I got it pretty good and close to his likeness. Though I wanted to see about leaning towards warmer colors. I don't know how well I did that, I was really pushing my colors towards the hue of Viktor's at some times so I screwed up, but hopefully I worked those areas out so that you can't tell.
Check out more of Viktor Fetsch's work, this is not a request, do it.
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?179065-Fetschbook
http://fetschart.blogspot.com/
http://fetsch.deviantart.com/
and if you want to follow him on twitter he's @ViktorFetsch
Thank you for viewing!!!

Nude Study

I said there would be nudes, and I do not disappoint. I planned on making this a speed painting video, but I spaced out and forgot to hit record. This was done in Painter 12 and took aprox. 4 hours. I used the Blender Palette Knife, Basic Round initially to lay in colors, A grainy blender although I could have done without it, Scratch-board tool, primarily I used the Real oils soft wet, a smeary flat, and tapered flat. I like how using the combinations of the palette knife, tapered flat and real oils soft wet brushes make this digital painting look like an oil painting. I'm still unsure of how to fully render this piece if you enlarge the picture by clicking on it and look at the details in the face you will notice some geometric shapes. I could not find a suitable way to blend or render better transitions. I tried just using the oil brushes, then i tried using the scratch-board tool, however none of the had the desired effect I was looking for.