I think I’ve posted some little piccies of Caroline’s avatar here and there, but here is an “official” one.
Larger version: http://www.aquamarinestardust.net/images/CarolineNewFinalSmall.png
My sketch: http://www.aquamarinestardust.net/images/CarolineNewSketch.jpg
(warning: actual size!! I worked on a 2000 x 3000 px canvas this time, haha~)
I hope that you like it! I think it’s funny, trying to translate Caroline into this pseudo-realistic style (my term for this sort of stylized rendering as seen in video game cutscenes, etc.). You can see where I slipped up in translation and got too lazy to fix it (her neck rivals a Giraffe’s; her eyes aren’t the same size; her nose is too long; her hair is uneven; her ear looks funky; etc. etc. etc.). One weird thing is that if you paint a girl’s eyelashes as starkly as in standard anime (which I did here), it looks like she’s wearing several ounces of mascara.
I did a lot of CG and art studying before/while painting this. Although I kept many elements of my own style and of course used Caroline’s image, I definitely have to thank iDNAR (http://idnar.deviantart.com/) for his spectacular artwork that I learned so much from. I also studied a few photographs (mostly of Asian celebrities, haha!) and a few Danbooru piccies and Haradaya piccies as well. And last but not least, I was flipping through a lot of the pages of my human anatomy book (same one I use to study for the MCAT). The illustrators for anatomy books are really outstanding – not only do they have to use tasteful artistic rendering, but they have to be so precise and scientific about it as well!
Alright, back to our regularly scheduled studying ….
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