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Lost in the Garden.

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My body may be here, but my mind is elsewhere in another realm...

I posed for some reference photos, but technically this isn't meant to me.
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On Epilogue you said you tried to make this character prettier than you.

I think your method was making her lips seem like of someone just into her youth, her cheeks as if she has a lot of energy, and maybe by making the nose look different (though it is also somewhat an outline and hard to say it is prettier than photos,) though none of that is necessarily is relevant. According to science or at least its study of Classical Greek art, beauty involves the golden ratio not on the side, but front, of the face, but the painting is partly a 3/4 view. Maybe BBC's early 2000s article said something about side views, but it is now gone. Modern Western standards are also different from Classical, both of which may be different from some in the British Isles, etc..

If your eyes (or the character's) & hair were different maybe the golden ratio could prove your statement or not, but it is maybe like 'I pick a number beyond infinity:' actually in math it is done, but it requires not using normal context anymore. BBC's latest golden ratio article seemed to show to me it does not always work, so I guess everyone can have their own opinion. If your had visualization in the other realm maybe others could only compare that.

Of course the character is beautiful, but her face is only a small area and may have a little outlining not in real life. It is an excellent photosurrealistic piece... or maybe of a bench outside, not sofa, though with stuff on like a sofa.