Female Warrior Concept
polycounter lvl 9
Not sure what to add in the background, and still polishing up on photoshop skills, made the eyes bigger than normal trying to go for a stylized feel but semi realism, still trying to find my strengths, any critiques would be awesome, and also plan to model a 3d version
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Got some lovely shading and you have a good grasp on colours!
After a little google here are some ideas for your background
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131217002249/p__/protagonist/images/8/89/Xena.jpeg
http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/08/fantastic-kickass-women-warriors/fantastic-kickass-women-warriors-04.jpg
I've also annotated your drawing with some possible improvements on proportion.
So from top to bottom -
Scaled up the size of the nose and mouth if you google face proportions, generally the edges of the mouth line up with the middle of your characters eyes (the blue lines)
Made the shoulders a little narrower
I felt the arms were a lit long so shortened them a bit if you look at women you will see that generally the elbows are at around the middrift of the body (bottom of the ribcage, a bit above the pelvis).
Sexy ladies have lovely big hips you want the hips to generally be equal to or wider than your characters shoulders
Ive also added a sword and moved the shield Youve posed your character like shes about to pounce on the attack. So use the environment and accessories to emphasis that
Photoshop is a powerful drawing tool - you can edit and edit and edit to your hearts content and still have your original image to refer back too. So i look forward to seeing what you do next with your character