I have been doing some more work on my Paint Your Story backgrounds, and actually worked up the courage to put a girl on one!
This is where the background started out:

Then I added my girl:

A bit more tweaking:

And a bit more, then voila! This is where I am up to now:

It seems that the further into the painting I get, the more stuck I feel :/ I think I am more attached to it as I have spent more time and effort getting it to this point, so feel funny about doing crazy stuff to it - but I need to take a deep breath and do a bit more crazy as I am not happy with the green and pink around her head, it just looks a bit boring, or else I need to carry the green and pink out further...hmmm....

I signed up for Mindy lacefield's Paint Your Story course a while back, and have just gotten to it, and boy is it fun! I am getting some backgrounds done, this is the initial stage, I will go back to them and change them a bit once they are dry :)

 I have two girls in progress at the moment, inspired by Juliette Crane's How to Paint A Girl course. This one (above) I am really not liking the background of and she has been stuck at this point for a week or so now.

This girl was started last night on a background I really like, and I am loving how she is coming along. Still more work to do on her, but I have some ideas for what I want to do :)

 A face sketch I did for Motley soul's Face 2 Face course. This was one of the first ones I did.

and another one for F2F, I am liking how my shading is coming along, but didn't notice that the eye on the right was lower than the left one until I had done a fair bit of shading :/