Okay, I'm not done.

The hair is still rudely out of whack.

I might be done at this point.

So, now I’m going to start focusing on tinkering with the color and contrast.

Is this an update?

At this point, I’m just reshaping the hair. I may add a few touches here and there, soon. We’ll see.

Ready to render in high resolution.

While I’m currently reshaping the hair, I wanted to make one last comparison to the original caricature from way back when. Yes, she looks more like a Muppet than anything. And that wasn’t intentional.

Getting closer.

This isn’t half bad. Pretty soon I’ll have to post it on the social media to gauge the reaction.

*This is an update from today’s post. The skin was too dark, so I had to adjust the tone.

I just scrolled down to a post from July where I thought the likeness was almost where I wanted it to be. In retrospect, it wasn’t even close. So, instead of posting this last render to social media, I am going to sleep on it and come back to see if this is as accurate as I originally thought.

Still getting closer.

The two images above were a struggle with the smile and the eyes; neither matched her actual face. I also suspected there to be a lighting issue, so I tinkered with the background illumination as you can see from the earring reflection. But, the likeness was still missing.

Here, the likeness has grown closer, but I’m still not convinced. I also darkened the back to add some contrast, and lowered the shoulders of the jacket.

This version isn't so bad.

Even with the eyebrows.

Maybe it just needs a set of eyebrows.

I guess I’ll have to work on that next.

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.