I'm quite a bit late, but thank you @WeirdOwl and @Julia_J. And thank you too @HANDRO! It was indeed from imagination. I matched a few concepts and ideas that I felt work together to create it. I did end up making a small paper maquette to help me a bit with the lighting.

So I started again with Artschool. Not from the beginning, but with the anatomy of the head. I had a few more exercises I did digitally where I did the structure of various faces and added the fat pads on top based from photos, but they might have been lost in the ether now

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And then I started sketching one from imagination and it turned to this 😆

I have an idea for an illustration based from it which is nice!

Here are a few head construction sketches

Thanks @mau.wamp .wamp! Whiie they're rough sketches, I took my time and tried my best to reproduce the planes. Thats the only way for me to understand the main structure of the head 🙂

So here's another head. This one I am going to try to paint to see how well I can make something more polished on this Samsung tablet I got recently. It works for sketches, but will I manage something a bit more ambitious. We'll see!

I'm calling it done! It's a bit rough, but I now know I can make nice paintings on this device. It's exciting!

Thank you @HANDRO and @WeirdOwl! I'm really glad that I managed to convey the different planes. And as for the Junji Ito vibe, I'm not sure if I see it. But I'm a big fan of his so maybe something happened subconsciously 😆

I see now! I can't really disagree with you on that one 😆