Shawn WIP7 - hair worked on

Hi there, i have one more update and then i plan to take a few days offf from drawing this portrait....
I worked on the hair and the ear, worked and played around with the BG...still using a 2b and 3b for all,i blended the skin tones with a tissue a few times and used a blending stump on smaller areas. I still need to finish up the hair, ear and small areas of the face then i will begin work on the hand and sweater. I took a digital pic again, it messed up the BG tones so i fixed them a little in psp, the image still looks very gray but in person it's not. Thanks for looking.

Previous stages:::
Shawn wip1:
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Shawn wip2:
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Shawn wip3:
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Shawn wip4:
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Shawn wip5:
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Shawn wip6:
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Ciao ~Linda