Developing on myself and Final Design

At home I decided to take on board some of the changes I decided to make in my initial practice and see how I felt about them on my self to ensure Id made the right decisions.

As you can see I've matched my own skin tones, kept my natural auburn brows on show, featured a natural toned lip and kept the shadowy contour on the cheekbones and around the nose and eyes.
I still don't think this design is perfect, although I'm happy with the changes I've made. At the moment I think the eyes look too bare so i think some shadowing could be added to emphasise this feature seen in portraits of Mary Stuart.
I also feel that the lip colour is a bit too coral-toned and doesn't really fit in with the elizabethan theme so Ill practice nixing up a more rose toned colour for future.
So with all these ideas taken on board I completed my final design illustration.

Final Design