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I know exactly what the problem is.
It is from life. Not only that, but it is someone you know!
I am completely sure if you got two or three snapshots from your point of view and worked for 1/2 hour from that reference, you would NAIL it!
The stamina and muscle control of a little dynamo is almost too much to expect to be controlled and that dampening of life energy is what is happening.
Not to get too metaphysical on ya, but I have been tipping my model in the open studio on occasion, especially on the BAD poses and taking a reference shot or two. Literally I often find that that conversion to 2-d from 3-d will let me INSTANTLY see the needed correction.
I hope you do not feel that it is in any way LESS professional to use all the tools at your command. This is a nice little aspirin of a solution to the BIG headache this piece has caused you.
Happy client is the goal.
Harder than having both of you dissatisfied is that picture that you KNOW is just bad, that the client adores. Hard to stop fixing and hard to let go of when you KNOW you have to hold back for the sake of the fee.
Not making enough right now to even pretend such professional vanities, I have happier clients with some of my most mediocre work. The really good stuff is paid for and that is all the thanks I need or get!
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