Progress Report: Cigar

Why is it that I can take two consecutive photos... and they come out completely different colours?
Anyway, the first picture of Cigar is most accurate colour/shading wise. The second photo somehow got washed out. :S







I'm getting there!
The face shading is more or less done (and I'm pretty proud)- ditto with the back cannons.
I'm 99% happy with the right hand side body colour/shading, but still need to add shading to the left side.
Thank goodness I'm finally getting to the details!
If I can manage to nail at least SOME of the details, I think I'll end up being pretty happy with my second ever attempt at painting!

As always, it can only get better!