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Bill,
This is such a wonderful drawing! Thank you for posting the closeups. It seems simple, I think, because the values work together and the whole never falls apart into pieces. But as I look at it more closely, I start to see the richness and complexity under the surface. Her expression and the suggestion of her personality and soul grabs me at the same time as the variations of texture and strokes.
You say you are "not particularly good at likeness" and that as time goes on you have to work harder to get a satisfactory result. It occurred to me that you must be trying to get deeper into the person you are drawing/painting. Obviously you are not aiming for a fascile, quick, superficial likeness. So I think what you are aiming for is not easily come by and I admire your work because of that, and many other things, too.
Alex
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