Digital Painting Practice

In Uni I've been looking at the Digital Painting magazine, which is filled with such talented users of Photoshop and Painter.  So I took a few minutes out to paint some facial features using what I learnt from the artists advice in those magazines.

I tried using various brushes to see what kind of mark they made on my canvas and I found that I had a watercolour build up brush in my set brushes, I will never go back to a soft round brush and the smudge tool!