>>3720195Take as much time as you need but after your drawing is set, your values blocked in, and you are rendering and refining edges as you are now, you should have some focus set, a focused light source(s), focus for detail. It seems there’s no order for where you are detailing. Even if you want a high level of detail throughout the piece, detail should be built up in stages, or you can work similar to alla prima and work from focal area outward. Having that kind of focus will save you time and the pain of having to go back to other areas to make the detail less or more to fit within the piece.