LOL. I notice she didn't try the slightly open mouth on the young female face. Sketching or painting teeth on the female face is so difficult for me - they just always look dirty or something if you draw the lines. You almost have to just barely hint at them or they can look gross. That effect doesn't matter on a man's or old woman's open mouth but on a young woman's, it can be so hard to get it looking right.
She could have traced it and probably did being a liar about most things but I've seen some wonderful exact work by the really talented artist with a technical eye for exact detail, dimension and proportion. Virtual copies. But then so many portrait artists do trace outlines of the main structures of the face in portraits and go from there, she's probably just mimicking this poorly kept secret.
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