The value range of your subject exceeds the dynamic range of your camera so that the lightest lights are bleached out giving you no highlight information. Lowering the lightest lights a tad and placing the small highlights in the right places is very crucial IMHO.
I remember you just purchased a new digital camera. Besides pixel count, the dynamic range is extremely important and for the purposes as an artist reference even more so.
The mental strategy that needs to be front and foremost is that of relating each form to the lightsource. For example consider how each curl turn towards and away from the light? The top center curl looks more like a donut and needs to be considered in this way.
Problems of likeness color and composition are all secondary to the convincing resolution of form in light. Get it to turn. Again IMHO!
You've been really making great progress lately. Keep up the good work.
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