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    Do you ever eat all the frosting first?  Probably not...because then all you're left with is cake, and cake is pretty dry without that sweet frosting... Which is why I save the face till last in a portrait!  Let me explain... My method for portraits is to finish the background, foreground, clothing, hands, feet and hair first, before working on... View more
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