New digital ink portrait Frowning1 - week two Work in progress

I started my second digital ink portrait, and this time it is the start of three self portraits. For some reason, the second of anything for me is really tough to pull off successfully. Maybe I set my sights to high, perhaps after an initial success, I want even larger swings into the realm of achievement and that just doesn't happen in the real world.  But win or lose, I have been working on this piece and think I have it bent into a pleasing direction finally.