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Thank you Alex and Mischa for your comments. I am considering doing away with the roses however I wonder what then would I replace them with? I am hesitant to make just a plain dark background for her. Its true I should have put her in the garden to get the light right and I will probably not try this again without doing so. As far as the neck goes, there is a possiblity that it is too thick although I did measure. She is hunched over slightly which is probably not good for a portrait because it does make her look less feminine. I agree about the plains of the face. The indefinition was bothering me also but I wasn't sure how to deal with that. And now I no longer have the reference as the cd was returned to the owner. I will probably just keep it as is and keep this critique for future reference.
I am finding that one of my struggles in this and other portraits is getting a clean shadow mixture and getting it dark enough to define the bone structure better without mixing mud. Shadows such as around the eyes for instance which may be what you are speaking about Mischa-so that the nose is more defined. What do you think?
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