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I will put this aside for awhile to study it to determine what I need to do next.  If I dive in now, I might get it to the point of no return so it is best that it sit around to be evaluated.  I brought up the colors of the shirt, defined where the wrinkles are to be and kept the light source coming from behind the subject's left ear and over the left shoulder.  I decided I'd make this the warm side.   The right side of the subject was more in shadow therefore I used a cooler tone there. 

On the face, I determined where the bone structure was building up many layers for the "character lines" of the face.  Curvy strokes of paint indicate the curls on the subject's head, beard and mustache.

By the way, the sleeping subject is my husband, John.