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I think your experience with the photograph has been very instructive, and I doubt you'll ever have the same difficulty again, at least not without throwing the photo into the analytical process of "What's gone wrong here?" Reference photos are basic tools -- essential tools to many if not most artists showing work on this site, I suspect -- but they're not the unquestionable standard from which you work or by which you judge your work or assess your progress. If a photo begins to lie to you, you must be willing to say 'thanks, we'll call you' and then send it away or at least turn your back on it until the next audition, with a promise to get together "sometime" for lunch.
To your credit, you knew, and said early on, that the heavy darks in the woman's face were troubling to you. It just took a bit of push and shove, back and fill, to figure out where that was coming from and whether it was correct.
You figured it out. You're on your way.
Best wishes.
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