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So this guy goes into a bar . . .
Couple of later thoughts:
I once heard or read someone's advice on likeness, to look for those particularly distinctive features that you would exaggerate if you were doing a 10-minute caricature. Then, omit the exaggeration, but make absolutely sure that, at the very least, those features are present in your work, and that they're accurate.
One of those experiences that makes you wonder whether to go out and conquer the world or search out a bottle of gin, Daniel Greene remarked off-handedly, in response to a question during a public pastel portrait demonstration at his studio, that he wasn't all that concerned about getting a likeness, that getting a likeness was one of the easier parts of doing a portrait.
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