Live model portrait

This was my first attempt at a portrait, starting from a live model. I wish I had taken a photo of it before I got it home. I started working on it from the photo that I took of her. After rearranging everything, multiple times, I still could not get her "essence". It is wrong in the mere proportion, or tilt,or something and I can not get it right. After 20 hours I will give up and start a new one from scratch (maybe). That is the plan anyway. We will see where it goes.

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