This is a very early stage of the process, but still the most important one (and hardest to me) for this kind of work and it is about encapsulating the "feeling" of the person, so we already can recognize him. I know the resolution is a bit high (150k) but that's because I am moving to the secondary shapes stage.
Easier to recognize on the first picture
SPOILER (don't read this if you haven't posted your guess yet) :
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It'll be boring, but you'll be able to learn your foundations better, and that'll carry into future work.