Just toying with a few G'MIC presets (and other things) for the result.

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/seve ... 806-19.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@ ... 4/sizes/o/

Don't know why but I thought of Agatha Christie when I first saw it. Great work as always lylejk.

Thought she had grey hair, Dalia. lol

Thanks for the comments.

Ok lylejk. Maybe a young Agatha...

There is something distinctly 20's about the style here. I can see the reference to Agatha Christie, but I didn't consider her personally but rather that this could be a prop from one of her stories - "the murderous doll" or something like that.

I'm trying to determine if it actually looks like ink work or not and I'm not sure - I've not seen anyone do inking like this, especially the linework and curly bits in the shadows under her chin. It would definitely be a unique style though, should it be attempted!
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Griatch

Thanks for critiquing this one Griatch. I admit that when I saw your post, Distant Places, it inspired me to try such a look which then led to this render.