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[Moon Rabbits]

Originally Posted by KoShiatar ^

Thanks. Maybe I should color it?

Please do.

[KoShiatar]

Ooookaaaay. It'll take time though.

[Loony BoB]

Yeah, colour would do this one a world of good. Much curvier than your other drawing and I like this one all the more for that reason. The only problems I have are...

1. I still don't like the whole "seeing the eyes over the hair" thing, especially when evertyhing else is very anatomically correct. I can understand eyes-over-hair in anime style drawings because, well, they're very simple and don't give a crap about detail. Quite frankly, anime drawings for the most part are very sub-par, but things (such as eyes over hair) allow artists to show emotion better. With drawings as detailed as this, though, you should be able to do without such things and instead focus on giving the character emotion through more realistic methods.

2. The colouring will undoubtedly fix this if you manage it, but the bottom line of the lips is barely visible on my high resolution CRT monitor, and because of that her mouth looks really weird, sort of like this: ^

But yeah, I like this picture a lot. Her hair is awesome.

[KoShiatar]

Well BoB, at the time I drew it (2001) it was supposed to be manga style... I'm glad I drifted away from it with time, but eyes over hair were always there. :P Perhaps I could Photoshop it out of it...
as for her lower lip, I'll see what I can do. The coloring should fix it up. Speaking of which, any suggestion on a color scheme? She was supposed to be completely dressed in white, but I'm afraid white won't make a great picture.

[Loony BoB]

I see her as the kind of girl to have ginger hair, although I don't know why. For her costume, though... not sure. If I were you, I'd work on the things you know first, so do the skin etc. Once you've got that done, the rest might come to you a little better. Sort of like dressing yourself - people know what they look good in because they know what their skin tone, hair colour etc. is.

Maybe someone can give better advice than me. =x

[Maybe_Tomorrow]

White would still make this picture look good. (Which by the way looks great just the way it is.) All you would really have to do is color the skin, the hair, and give it a little more shadowing wise.

[Raestlin]

I Maybe be wrong but I always saw this as a solid Nobuo Uematsu piece with strong ties to Celes from FF6 .

Either way I agree with the eye through the hair, to a degree. Hair is a thin filament, hair can be a seen through rather than a complete obstruction. Maybe lighten the lines of the eyes or something.

[Rocket Edge]

That looks so clean and elegant. Great job!