Hi Jeffrey powerful portrait good likeness , the lighting on the reference has worked in your painting , but I feel may have made the painting technically more difficult .
Short beards are tough. Try laying some skin color first and then dry brushing (maybe with a fan or splayed brush) the hair in. Also, use less white and more gray. Reserve the white for highlights/accents. Don’t use it for the local hair color.
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