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In general...
I am not critiquing those critiquing, so please know that I tread very lightly with this comment, but you will find that the final arbitrator is not necessarily the photograph.
This is particularly true in reference to shadow values and edges. A photograph will intensify value differences and might show a hard line where there is none. This is why working from life is so important. Not that one should never use photographs, but that the artist be able to interpret that photograph. The artist be able to understand what life looks like.
I would say that Hanna has interpreted the photograph correctly. She has modulated the shadow on the baby's skin into an airy, soft, bluish baby shadow, not the hard plastic orange shadow on the photograph.
I see only two very minor corrections, the neck under the chin is just a hair too light, it should move back to into a mid value, and Steven's comment about the cast shadow on the trunk being to "edgy." I would think about softening in.
Beautiful, sensitive work.
Peggy
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