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I had a bad experience last night.
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Me, too. I hope yours didn't include folding your drawing up into a WhiteWings airplane and sailing it over the rail into the sea, because I don't think you were far from quite a successful piece.
I've been searching for just the right exemplars to post, but haven't had luck, so I'll just note that I think most of the difficulty you were having had to do with 1) getting the right values and 2) getting them in the right place, in order to correctly describe the form.
Obviously you were dealing with a pretty recalcitrant reference photo when it came to seeking information, but I think you began to get into trouble when departing from the overall value scheme, especially in bringing too much light into the shadow side of the face. This left a stripe of dark value right down the middle, with the effect of, among other things, making the mouth look a little beak'ed, or "pursed," as you put it.
Go fish that drawing out of the water and have another go, remembering that form comes before -- long before -- details.