[Rob Sullivan]

I'm actually in the midst of P-shopping some other things for a Digital Illustration class I'm currently teaching. I'm so not qualified for it, but they talked me into it. Weird, huh, considering what I'd said about the MFA requirement, as posted in the Cafe. They'l let me teach something I'm not qualified for, but they won't let me teach something I am qualified for in BFA. Okay, that's off-topic :P

I designated 4 areas A, B, C and D, plus a wee arrow to show a drawing change. I did re-draw and re-position the eyes. The mouth I moved just a tad, and put it on its proper plane.

Area "A" was too warm, saturated with an orange hue. It is true there are areas of great warmth in the transitions across the "terminator" (the line that separates the dark and light planes), but this warmth was dominating the entire core shadow. I poly-lassoed it and hue shifted towards red, desaturated it quite a bit and knocked back the contrasts.

Area "B" sort of has the opposite problem. This is interesting, because in indoor light situations, the reflected lights in the head have a tendency to be cooler (or at least, more neutral, thus percieved cooler), as the main light is generally warm (especially in incandescent light). However, your main light is coming from outside! It is not cool, but what happens is that it bounces of interor objects back into the head on the shadow side and becomes quite warm in areas of saturated skin tone (ball of nose, cheek and chin, for instance). "B" was too neutral/ochre so I increased the saturation a little bit, and shifted it towards red.

There are some places in these broad areas where I had to add back or subtract away warmth because of small specific instances of these temperature changes. The cheek on the lower right side of "A" is an example of where I had de-saturated it along with the rest of "A", but there still needed to be warmth there, as the middle third of the face always has the most pigmentation (warm colors).

"C" is important to getting the jaw to separate a bit better from the sweater. His head casts a shadow here, so I darkened it (and de-saturated the blue a bit, as this is what happens in shadow).

I did the opposite to "D", as it seperates his little chubby cheek from the collar. I lightened it, thus bringing out the edge plane of the cheek rounding underneath the jaw line.

And the turquoise-colored arrow indicates a small drawing change. His head shape is more squared-off here than in your original. This helps with likeness a lot, getting more specific with the baby's particular profile (these little guys don't have the hair to hide their profiles!).

Hope this helps, Julie!