Lisa, Maybe you hit the nail on the head. When I printed out this photo, my printer decided that would be a good time to run out of ink..so the source was AWFUL, but I felt I knew this child well enough, and had several other snapshots just from her being around that I could pull from those if necessary. So, I didn't really go completely by that actual photo. Rebecca came over, and standing next to it, she looks like it, when it is next to the resource photo as Kim has done, it doesn't look like the photo. Maybe this is one of those instances when the photo told one story and my brain painted what it knew?
Anyway, my main purpose on this one was to practice, I tried out the Wallis paper and learned to NOT blend so much with my pinkie, I LITERALLY rubbed the skin off my finger, feels like tiny bit of glass are in it.
Usually likeness is not my problem, but the technical things, this one threw me for somereason and it is driving me nuts!