Digital portrait | Study of the Girl with a Pearl Earring [100% Power Up]

Hi everyone :)
I am posting another study today. This time I used the very famous painting of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Hearing as reference. What is interesting with this painting is that it is actually not the portrait of a real person, but rather an imaginary young woman, wearing oriental clothing and a very large pearl earring.

The way light plays on her face, eyes, lips and earring is beautiful. There are no harsh lines, just soft shadows and highlights and I found this was particularly challenging to paint, especially around her nose and nostril. I can see many things that could be improved but it was good practice! :)

I hope you like it, and as usual thanks for viewing!

Process pictures: I placed the original painting on the side of my screen to try to make it as similar as I could, and use the good color palette