In the meantime, my quest for a consistent reality continues and with more solid flesh in the arms and face vivian's body is beginning to take shape as a whole...
I am very pleased with the forehead, the arms and the cheeks. I have projected really good light onto the left cheek and excellent reflected light onto the right cheek. I have studied plenty of shadow to light transitions and noted the band of bright warm color that separates the light from the dark. Even the projected shadow of the head onto the neck and chest is quite believable now, but still I have to go a bit more shallow. I have carried the suit patterns up onto the left (my left) shoulder and done a bit more work on the hair to indicate the direction of light. I have made the lips narrower and more believable and I am frankly impressed with the beauty of the floating lights on the right cheek, a momentary stroke of genius, or maybe just a stroke that caused me to see spots, not sure.
what is still giving me pause now is the shadow area of the face, particularly the eye sockets and the projected nose shadow...."form shadows are blurred, cast shadows are sharp"...keep repeating the mantra, maybe it will sink in.
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