Thank you, everyone for your comments. This posting, as well as the few others I have submitted, have all shown me the same basic flaw in my work so far - not thinking things through well enough BEFORE I get started on a project; thus, my first posting in the Reference Photo Critique section this week. I'm turning over a new leaf.
Mara, for what its worth. I think you need to re-check the drawing of the faces. For example the mans moth is not as it should be. Another thing even though you see the shadows on a face real dark, thanks to the photo, in real life it is not that dark. When painting faces the basic thing one decides is the local color and then how big the separations will be between the shadow and light. As you well know dark shadows under the eyes do not look so good.
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