Visual Language Texture

This is a piece I was working on to practice working digitally i'm really happy with how it's turned out I definitely think digital art is something i want to carry on working with. Although there are parts of this piece I want to improve on such as the integration of shadow on the face, but some parts work really well such as the shirt. I've recently been teaching myself to work fully digitally learning from online tutorials and youtube videos and I can see the results in my final pieces, I still need to work on the line quality and texture though I'm going to start exploring different brushes soon. I also looked at how i could place a photo underneath my initial drawing and how this would create a texture to an otherwise flat image. It also relates to some of the earliest work I did for visual Language related to character design.