My colours are nothing like the colours on the screen. She has much fairer skin than I have given her really, I've used alot of yellows and oranges which there was only a hint of in the picture. I like to do that though, I tend to pull out colours that interest me and run with them. I was especially proud to get some purple in there around the dark side of her face, because I think it works really well, it could probably stand more purple actually.
Do you have any methods for getting good references? I find it really hard to find high-quality pictures of portraits.
I'll try and sort the neck, and the shoulders maybe need a bit of a tweak too now I look at it.
I'm a little concerned about my camera, it seems to blur often. I don't know whether I'm just getting tremours or I hurt it by dropping or have inadvertantly screwed something up in my tinkering with the settings, hmm.
I also did this little thing last night, which is a moon hare, partially influenced by Okami- amazing game! Just a quick thing really, to amuse me.

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ficklefiendI don't think I chose the best pose for him but I might change it a wee bit later.. not sure about all the empty space either you see, there is a reason I call myself fickle!