When my clients and prospects wish to pay what they feel is the highest compliment to my work they say "Oh, it looks just like a photograph!" Of course, that's not what I like to hear, (I was aiming for something better than a photograph, actually) but that style seems to be what they like to see, and what impresses them most.
I like a painterly style, though it doesn't show much in my portraits. I think the style I am gravitating toward is having fine precision in faces and hands, and more painterly backgrounds and clothing.
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