[Rob Sullivan]

Julie -

Sorry I came into this thread late, but if you are still open to some help, I'd like to share my assessments and perhaps some Photoshop manipulations to guide you further.

The advice you've recieved thus far has been spot on with regards to drawing and contrast corrections, etc. I've taken the liberty of further breaking down your latest posted image into sections in order to show where there needs to be some hue shifts and saturation changes, along with a few small things that are important to fully realizing the likeness.

But before I post these things, I'd like to ask for your permission to do so. It's pretty much for the same reason that I ask my students if I may draw/paint on their work to show them the practical application of the process - just a matter of respect for personal property, really.

So let me know - hope things are going well with this one! Scraping the work down is scary, but once you do it, it's never scary again!