Ok about a year back I tried to do a realistic picture, to compare this one with last years...well this one looks alot better than last years. the hair is in the rough outline stage, so I know that the forehead to hair ratio is off, I AM fixing that lol, I want a nice looking head XD . used a thumbnail for face lighting reference.

Update (3/19) Did some base coloring of the hair with some highlights, detailing later

Update 2 (3/19) Used brush on multiply and screen to get the texture of the hair and flow, next step is strand detailing aka small strand flow

Update 3 (3/20) Cleaned up on some strands that went on a tangent. Need to clean up further, but other than that, this is pretty much done.