Full progress can be seen by visiting my Repo
The work on the eyes reminds me of icon painting back in the 2008-2012 time period. When the iPhone came out with their “glassy” icons with shading and reflection on the bottom of the icon. It was a nice 3d effect until you learned how to do it. Then I started seeing all the ad agencies using that technique. I didn’t see the 3d effect, I just saw the flat logo with semitransparent white blobs for shading effect.
I wanted to have the specks going into the pupil to be the same color as what it was next to. I didn’t use the paint mask and blended the iris color into the pupil in nice little triangles.