Natsu Matsuri pic + Today's doodle

I finished the festival pic yesterday, but I made another work in progress pic. It looks almost finished, but I still made many small changes till the finished version . I still hate this, meh...

And I wanted to do some random mindless doodling this evening, so I started my 2nd semi-realistic character portrait thing in Photoshop. I've worked on it for only a few minutes so far, see how fugly it is:

Btw, I'm still listening to Elysion. 8D I think I randomly learn a lot of Japanese words by looking up the lyrics. XD Here's another song I really like: