Carvaggio Study, continued

In a previous post, I mentioned I had started a Caravaggio study. I am posting pics of the last several sittings here to see the progress. As a student of oil painting, I find these studies very educational as it forces me to focus on technical details of the painting that are hard to see if you just look at it. I started this originally as just an effot to "draw" the figures in darks and lights and now I have begun to glaze some color. I'm pretty close to being done with the study as my goal was not to "perfectly" render this (since I can't!), but to understand some techniques better and learn what I need to work on next to advance my skill. Also, it should be noted that there is a huge difference between painting a picture or painting a painting and drawing from real life in terms of difficulty and approach. In a study like this, I find that I am really just focused on how the other artist rendered the subject rather than on rendering the subject the way I would see it. (I should also mention that these pics were taken with an i-phone and the quality of the photos generally suck.)