Just a little character portrait… I needed to wind down and do something simple. You people must be bored to death of seeing portraits from me. Wanted to submit this to Exotique but I lost track of the date and finished it a day too late. Oops.

I’ve tried to paint this character a few times before but I could never do her justice. She is perhaps my most genuinely beautiful character, and that is a challenging thing to capture. I was lucky this time; this started as a simple doodle but somewhere along the way her features emerged. It was one of those images that almost painted itself, and the process suited her. She’s just the type to let me chase her around for months and then present herself without warning, as though she’d been there all along.

Photoshop 7.0; crits welcome