Hi Terri,
You already had some good advises which I agree in. I shall only address one issue.
How to make the head look like it is in the light?
When the light hit the skin in a face it will bounce around and uplight places that are not actually in the light, f.ex. the side of the nose, because the light is reflected from the cheek. Only the deeper folds, like the nostrils and into the fold between the cheek and the nostril lap and often somewhere into the inner eye corner, wil be slightly darker than the general value.
So what I will suggest is that you lighten the shadow of the nose in general and then add a coupple of darker accents to mark the deeper folds.
Just one more issue . The eye brows and beard, in the light, is also lighter than the ultimate dark that we know it is.
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