Hi Patt,
Wow, what a challenge to produce a color portrait without any color reference, live or reproduction. Looks good so far, though. Here are just a few notes that I think will contribute to likeness:
Check both the thickness and width of the eyebrows. Especially on our left, the eyebrow seems a bit thick and seems to extend too far to the left.
I'd go more with the shadow cast by the bill of the hat, diagonally across the brow and putting more of the eye on our right in shadow. All that light on the upper lid on our right is making the eye bulge out and appear "vertically oblong", for want of a better term.
In the photo, the moustache isn't perpendicular to the vertical center of the face, but is higher on our left. I think that's very characterizing of the mouth area.
I think the moustache on our left side is fuller as it approaches the far left, rather than coming so rapidly to a "waxed" point.
I'd keep the shadow side of the face more fully in shadow values, and not break up that area quite as much with light spots, with the exception of the light defining the dimple on our right, above the outside end of the moustache, a light which right now isn't in your painting.
I'll quit there because I'm on a dodgy connection in Beijing and I think I'm about to get timed out. (Can you hear people all over the Forum shouting, "How can WE get that software?")
Cheers
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