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Hi Lisa,
Forgive me if I have mentioned this to you before but your portraits will take a quantum leap in quality when you take your own photos. These two reference shots suffer from many problems, the main one being that the angle of light is different in each photo. The color of light is also different, which makes their skintones too different to look like they are sitting together. The harsh highlights on the woman are also a problem. It looks like that photo taken with two different light sources (window and flash).
Your paintings will be much easier to paint (really!) when you don't have to invent light areas on the man's right cheek, or invent skintones that go together, or invent clothing that overlaps, etc.
I don't accept any commissions where I can't shoot my own reference photos.
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