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Hello Leslie,
I wrote this before I saw Lara's post, but most of it is in agreement with what she's said, it just makes some of what she said more explicit.
I think you have a drawing problem you can correct in this underpainting stage. I've done a digital manipulation in which I equated the photo and the painting in size, and then superimposed the salient features traced from the photo onto the painting. With the hairline and the girl's left eye in register, everything else is a bit off. I've traced the same features in green on the painting to emphasize the differences. The girl's head has a slight tilt to our right in the photo, but you appear to have drawn most of the features nearly horizontal, or even, as in the case of the nose, with an opposite tilt. Also there are some large excursions outside the jawline relative to what's in the photo. I hope this helps.
John
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