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Oh gosh no, I wouldn't dignify that by calling it an underpainting. The gray version of her face at the very beginning is rather a very rough sketch without much concern as to likeness... I just used it to work out the scale of her head relative to her shoulders/torso. As they were from different reference shots and although I used a model for coloring, her proportions were not as lanky as the subject's.
The first pass (up until the comment says 'finished roughing in') was just to cover the white canvas and to get approximate local local/value in so that I had something to assess colors against. You can see the first pass of color on her face was done before most of the background darks around her face and winds up being far too light.
Mostly I just worked background to foreground, deepening her facial flesh-tones when it became apparent that they desparately needed it -- I left details of likeness until the very end.
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