Thanks, everyone, for your input. I will try out some things and post this evening, I hope.
The background will stay as is. I'll darken that hair and ear up a bit. Can't really lighten the lighter areas past the paper itself and don't want to add white, since it's not a toned paper and don't think it would look right. There really is more of a value shift than this shows and I will try on the next round to show it better.
Didn't like the white shirt he wore, so am not going to lighten it up. The shirt did lose a bit of area when I started using charcoal in the background. Now it's really going to be too hard to go back and retrieve it - don't think it's worth the bother.
I am more than ready to let this one go. It was fun, but I'm in the midst of the final end-of-school-year frenzy of paperwork and meetings and am tired.
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