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For the benefit of those of us who plod down the oxcart trail one flat-hooved, measured step at a time, please in the future report that production of a lovely piece like this required many, many hours, perhaps days (it gets hard to remember, sometimes), rather than an "afternoon".
What fantastic light effects you captured in the face! And those rosy red cheeks, which for some reason we don't think of as being a quality of a young boy's features, but I know from my own son's appearance that they're "true".
I don't have any problem in particular with what you refer to as a "streaky" background, though I do find slightly distracting the filbert-brush "starts" on some of those streaks. The only experiment I would conduct on that background is to lighten it up around the right side (viewer's) of the neck, for depth contrast with the shadow on the neck. (I fooled around with this on PhotoShop very briefly, and I liked the effect.) Also, that shadow on the neck might be a little too dark and warm -- there's a bit of heat and harshness to it right now that seems incongruous with the youthfully soft features otherwise.
I think I might go back to my day job and just commission you to do my son's portrait. I'll see how I feel about that later, after the next cup of coffee.
Nice, nice work.
Steven
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