Sade Sayari

It's been a long time since I've drawn this OC of mine, and I felt compelled to try again today. For the record, the girl's supposed to have 22 Charisma, which is insane. Most siren-like creatures have about 20. Geekiness aside, she's supposed to just be pretty much the prettiest girl I can imagine, which is why I never really truly capture her just right :)

But anyway, here was my sketch of the day:

I started with flat coloring her, and figured I could clean up the sketch as I went along:

Then my computer crashed, and I was upset. I walked my dog to chill out, and whined about it to my best friend haha. Ah, the art process LOL.

Second attempt at painting it... I initially wanted to change the chromatics completely, but I decided I liked this molten lava look, so I finished it up as is:

And here she is, with her little familiar, Topi the Leopard Gecko :)

WIPS of a 6 hour painting study

This is the reference photograph I wanted to paint, which was uploaded as stock on deviantart here.

To begin with, I sketched out the drawing: 

  Then I blocked in the background colors

Next I isolated the area of the face, and added some foreground foliage:

Then I started adding color to the hair and some of her face:

Focused on the eyes a bit:

And the lips:

Some work on her shirt:

And some finishing touches, including a slight contrast adjustment, and here's the final image :)