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Virgil,
This is very similar to how I work. I would love to see some of your color sketches. Whenever I give in to the temptation of painting the details too soon, such as when a subject has striking eyes that I can't wait to get to painting, I most often find I have painted beautiful eyes that are in the wrong place and have to scrape them off and start over.
I have seen artists who can start with a single feature and build around it and produce some great results. But I have tried this and I find It too difficult to get the position of that first brush stroke right so that I get the composition I wanted in the end. I suppose that if you are really good at visualizing the finished piece it is possible to bring one area to a finish before touching the rest, but I need to build up starting by placing basic shapes, "blocking in" then putting the details on as I go.
I find that simplifying the shapes into flat planes at first also helps maintain solidity and form.
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