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Steven,
Thank you for posting your helpful critique, and for doing it so quickly.
I had not previously been aware of how difficult photographic lighting would be to render in a painting. In trying to show the three-dimensional shapes, sometimes I went too far, as in the collarbones, and other times not far enough, as in the forehead and hair. I will certainly keep this in mind in the future when I take and select reference photos.
The lesson I learned concerning the face outline is that if I sense a problem, I need to stop and really look and think things through. At the time, I felt there was "something" wrong in that area, but because I had not found the real problem, I messed around and made things worse in adjacent areas.
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