digital portrait painting

Hello everyone, i am here to share a new digital portrait painting with you all.
i have been doing a lot of painting are very scratchy, the word i might use. i use a hard brush to paint and to blend colors,
it gives the drawing a little bit of traditional look. which i like a lot. i learned a few days ago how to apply a paper texture on my drawing.
i was trying to apply that.

And adding some weird object behind the drawing just makes it look not so bland.
so enjoy the drawing and take a look at the process shots below: