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Monique,
I have also been enjoying watching your work in progress and think that you have done a fine job.
Now for the nitpicks, I do think that you could push some details around a bit.
There are several things going on, as Steven suggested, so if you do one thing you will have to do another also.
I have done a few things in Photo Shop : 1. I picked the color from the background and took the forehead a little back. 2. With the same background color I straightened the cheek. 3. About her left eye, I did not lower the whole eye area, but filled some light color into the upper eyelid to "press" the eye from the top, and I took some of the dark in the iris added some to lower it.( Maybe you will need to lower the pupil also )
4. The mouth. I did raise the right side ( her left) and corrected the upper lip shape and slightly lowered the shadow, between the lips, on the left side.
By the way, the coat color reads warmer in the painting, how about adding a touch of colder highlight / texture?
I believe that the reference photo was taken from a distance, as it should be, and that that it is part of the perspective problem. Not that it is wrong, it
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