Christ Sculpture

This bust that is 5 inches high, 5 inches wide and 2 inches deep, I plan to cast it in plaster. I had to rework the halo behind him a few times to be smoother because I plan to gild them and have been having issues with gilding. I’m a beginner as far as that goes.  So if some of the surfaces of the ray’s of the halo’s are as smooth as I can make them my gilding should be acceptable.  I wanted to represent Christ with short hair because I found out that back then Hebrew men would’ve felt wearing long hair to be unacceptable since it is feminine.  I would like to paint him to have olive colored skin and very dark hair since that is common for people of a Hebrew heritage. I just really want to do something different from all the religious iconography that I have seen so far.  I wanted to create a representation of him that does not portray him as a half starved hippie with the physique of a junkie, lily white flesh and such.