MY FIRST MONOCHROME ARTWORK. DID IT TURN OUT WELL?

Hi Guys, so I worked on an artwork of a famous and world-class soccer player - Zlatan Ibrahimovic, plays for club AC Milan in Italy.
I've always been looking forward create a monochrome artwork, to try my coloring skills using different shades of one colour. I saw the original monochrome Image on his Instagram Page. I so loved the details and lighting, decided to try it out.

Check out the original Photo below

After reducing the opacity and setting my canvas size, I started with the Line Art

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The Line Art took a few hours, because I use a very pointed brush although it takes more time to finish the Line Art, It also helps me get smaller details.
Next step I did was to set my base color - this is the main colour, I'd be using it to get darker and brighter shades of it.

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Next was to apply the first dark shade to bring out the very obvious shades and skin fold on his face.

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I added the second darker shade to highlight less visible facial details. Check it out below

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Since some part of his face from the original image is quite darker than this - part with little or no light, I went two more dark shades below to highlight more details and added a lighter shade of the base color to sharpen it with contrast.

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Taking note of the light touching Part of his face, I further added more lighting to his face to differentiate areas with more or less exposure to light.

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The work is almost done. Next was to choose a suitable background and add some brush lighting to the darker part of his face. These are my finishing touches

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