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EDIT: Tweaked the mouth and just relaxed the lips a little. not sure it's better - just different.

I didn't really intend on doing this at all, but I've stumbled across a couple of decent human/face tutorials recently, and this character's been in my head for a while, not to mention I really need to work on my human faces, so I thought I'd kill a few birds with one stone (or PSD file, as it were) and do this.

It wasn't nearly as speedy as it was meant to be, and the face isn't great either (but it was practice, so I'm not complaining) but I do like the outcome over all. The mouth could do with a little tweaking (IMO) and the nose is...well, just don't go there. It's bad. They're the bane of my existance. But I like the eyes

I never design my characters the way you're 'supposed to' - ie, give them a motive and a past and think about what drives them, where they might have come from yada, yada...

Either a name or a face will just come to me and my gifted if slightly unstable Muse builds on that. Sometimes I know everything about a character for weeks without knowing what they look like. Other times, I know their faces and clothing or fighting styles, but couldn't tell you if they have a brother; it really depends.

This character is no different. She leapt to mind a few days ago, and as of yet I don't know much about her at all; her eye colour may yet change but I know that her name is Azalea (though she insists on 'Azza' since she's of the opinion her parents were smoking something when they named her). She's raised herself, mostly, with loving but whimsical and ungrounded parents and she has a flair for creativity, design and invention. She is, however, blunt to the point of causing hurt or insult and takes some getting used to - when you can get her to talk at all. And just as an FYI, that's a fishtail/herringbone braid in her hair. Gotta love 'em

At the minute I'm trying to work out what to do with her. Some of my characters are more insistent than others, so she'll get used somewhere since she won't leave me alone. There may be more art, but its likely she'll end up in a short story.

Feel free to point out errors in anatomy/shading/anything else - this was for human facial practice, mostly, and I'm aware there are glaring mistakes.

Uh...I think around 3-4 hours? I didn't count, tbh...
No refs (yikes - practice with no refs. I'm an idiot )
Art and character copyright to *Tattered-Dreams
Do not take, copy, edit, redistribute or manipulate.

Description
EDIT: Tweaked the mouth and just relaxed the lips a little. not sure it's better - just different.

I didn't really intend on doing this at all, but I've stumbled across a couple of decent human/face tutorials recently, and this character's been in my head for a while, not to mention I really need to work on my human faces, so I thought I'd kill a few birds with one stone (or PSD file, as it were) and do this.

It wasn't nearly as speedy as it was meant to be, and the face isn't great either (but it was practice, so I'm not complaining) but I do like the outcome over all. The mouth could do with a little tweaking (IMO) and the nose is...well, just don't go there. It's bad. They're the bane of my existance. But I like the eyes

I never design my characters the way you're 'supposed to' - ie, give them a motive and a past and think about what drives them, where they might have come from yada, yada...

Either a name or a face will just come to me and my gifted if slightly unstable Muse builds on that. Sometimes I know everything about a character for weeks without knowing what they look like. Other times, I know their faces and clothing or fighting styles, but couldn't tell you if they have a brother; it really depends.

This character is no different. She leapt to mind a few days ago, and as of yet I don't know much about her at all; her eye colour may yet change but I know that her name is Azalea (though she insists on 'Azza' since she's of the opinion her parents were smoking something when they named her). She's raised herself, mostly, with loving but whimsical and ungrounded parents and she has a flair for creativity, design and invention. She is, however, blunt to the point of causing hurt or insult and takes some getting used to - when you can get her to talk at all. And just as an FYI, that's a fishtail/herringbone braid in her hair. Gotta love 'em

At the minute I'm trying to work out what to do with her. Some of my characters are more insistent than others, so she'll get used somewhere since she won't leave me alone. There may be more art, but its likely she'll end up in a short story.

Feel free to point out errors in anatomy/shading/anything else - this was for human facial practice, mostly, and I'm aware there are glaring mistakes.

Uh...I think around 3-4 hours? I didn't count, tbh...
No refs (yikes - practice with no refs. I'm an idiot )
Art and character copyright to *Tattered-Dreams
Do not take, copy, edit, redistribute or manipulate.