Apparently, the likeness isn't quite there, yet.

I’m tinkering with both the model and the lighting. I’m using a few Facebook / Instagram posts as reference. Even if I added eyebrows to the model (which I haven’t), the likeness still appears to be off.

Now, I'm getting somewhere.

The likeness of the bottom picture is very close to the way I want. The issue now is the lack of photorealism. For now, it looks more like an oil painting than a photograph. I guess it’s time for more tinkering.

It's starting to look the way I want.

Since the likeness is almost exactly right, I’m going to focus on the realism. And I don’t know how I’m going to pull this off. Perhaps lighting is the key, but right now I have no idea.

I'm actually getting closer.

I don’t appreciate the way the camera is warping the perspective, but the likeness is improving. I’m not done, but I’m almost there.

I'm getting closer to what I originally wanted.

I’ll have to work on the hair. And also that smile.

I screwed up the entire face.

I haven’t posted for the last ten days, not because I haven’t worked on this piece, but because I ruined the piece immediately after my last posting. While making changes to the size and shape of the model’s body, I looked up to find I had somehow shifted the entire face completely out of position and that threw the likeness completely out of whack. It took me literally this long to reshape it to something even close to where I had it ten days ago.

A little improvement.

Is this looking better at all?

Truthfully, I can’t even tell.