apparently I spent more than 8 hours on this image.... and i hate it.

i used this weird boxy technique demonstrated by ibis paint, (because I hate the Loomis method as of right now) and it did what I feared: made the face too flat and off looking.

i got so frustrated i just decided to post instead of finish it. there's a lot of things i'd have to fix to get it to look right but i'm so burnt out from this one image.