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Old 03-03-2004, 07:37 PM   #4
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Janel, this is a nice study. I especially like the way you've depicted the hair, suggesting it but not overdoing the details.

A couple of suggestions: the eye on our left, her right, is looking downward slightly, whereas the eye in the reference photo has the same gaze as her left one. This is due to the edge of white above the iris, which gives it that downcast look. The eye on our left is also slightly more elevated relative to that on the right than is the case in the reference photo. The eyebrow on our left is very like the one in your photo, but the one on our right has more of an angle in the middle, going up more markedly than you're showing it. Also her cheek, on our left, should be slightly fuller at the same level as the corner of her mouth. And more variation in values would provide some of the dimensionality which her head and face lack; they look somewhat flat. Your lights could be lighter and your darks darker.

These are minor issues - for the most part it's a lovely painting of a beautiful little girl. I'll bet she's very proud of it.
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