My digital art work, wish

Good day frens, it's been a while I posted or drew. But today I'm not posting my pencil drawing but this is my digital art. I sketch a friend of mine as a gift, i will show the process.

I had to reduce the quality because it was so high for my sketch board, actually i used an app autodesk sketchbook.
First i traced the picture to get this

Tracing this took a lot of time, but it had to be done and finally I got this

Now i proceeded to color the clothes, the colors was easy but the shading it's still a work in progress

Then i moved to the skin this part was not much of a stress but it also took a while, i picked the base color, shade color and light color , to get to this

It was the end, so all i had to do add the background ,light and star to get my art. I called it wish because after 7 hours making this art work I made a wish to keep sketching and one day i make an art that people will call a masterpiece

Thank you all for helping me find what i lost, I'm grateful for hive.
Wish you all will also like my art work even though I'm still a novice