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Is this how you would crop this photo for the portrait? I am concerned there might be too much 'empty space' on the left side of the girl as we are looking at the portrait.
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Joan,
Speaking about the photo of the girl in the more upright pose, the space in front of her doesn't bother me personally, if you include the full figure. In my opinion, when you begin to reduce this space you will also want to come up from the bottom as I indicate with the cropped image below.
If you reduce to the cropped image you will have a hard time makeing this painting as big as you indicate you would like.
I've never been able to create a perfect reference. I like your approach with these simple uncomplicated compositions. Your challenge will be to pull some life from the extremes of dark and light.