Female portrait painting

Hello everyone, I wanted to paint something bold and monochromatic. I think I have painted something bold but it's not exactly black and white as in my original reference because I can't help myself when it comes to colour. I just had to adjust my hues and saturation and then couldn't revert back to my original intention. That's actually not a bad thing because I'm happy with the final result which you can view below

I started with an outline

Then I proceeded to fill the base colors

I then began to add shadows and highlights

And then I blended some of the sharp edges

The original refence photo can be found
here

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