I was practicing more with my paper sketching and then Gimp colouring technique. I’ve made several recently of which none have been anywhere near as good as the armour post I made. But the best of them is easily this one below.
It’s (heavily) based on an avatar I spotted by Core Xii on the TIGSource forums, and drawing people is something I really need to improve.
Creation
Like before I had a colour layer at the bottom, then shading and then an outline. However I found the hair looked really dirty with pencil shading.
So I also went over the shading in Gimp with a separate colour, which I personally feel vastly improved it. I have a feeling the dirty look worked on the armour because it’s very believable that it’s all windswept and dusty. Not so believable for girls hair.
Improvements
Finally here is a sped up YouTube video of the whole process.
You might notice the resulting image is slightly different. The original hair was bright red, didn’t include the coloured shading or the background, skin was too pink (it made her look sunburnt) and was not cropped. However the video is about 90% of the work.