This is a Tronie

Hello all you lovely people of the internet (name that YouTube video series). For one of my drawing projects, we had to reinvent the classic Tronie. What is a Tronie you ask? It is an old school renaissance portrait.

Here is an example of what is arguably the most famous Tronie, Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

Notice the three-quarter view profile and contrast between the figure and the background. 

Now here is my contemporary take on the classic Tronie:

And for your enjoyment, I included the selfies I took as reference for this picture: