Hand Painted 40k Battle Sister from Scratch

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or... 'if i get this finished, it'll be a miracle'

This will be my second full HP character so i'll be bumming advice off anyone as soon as i get beyond the sculpt - i fear retopology!

I'm working from Johannes Helgesson's excellent concept here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oOG1Wz

here she is so far. I've a lot to do and the proportions will all be changes once i get the meat of the sculpting done but i just wanted to make a long-ass WIP thread on it.

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Here's the brush i made for her bead belt thingy and a few instructions on how to use it:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9k9k52d3tqjllf/AC_BeadChainBrush.ZBP?dl=0

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Day 4 end:

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End of Day 5:

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Nearly done on the high poly! Just a gun , a book, a grenade, and a basic pass over some bits and bobs.

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Essentially just the hair left to do now and then just cleanup on the high poly.

Piemaster

This is looking dope @GreenBeams !

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@Piemaster Cheers, man!

Carabiner

The hardsurface/clothes are excellent, very well done! A few pieces of feedback

- Face feels a bit blobby and not as defined as it could be. Is that part still WIP?
- Back of the cape has some obvious symmetry/butterflying, can you break that up at all?

GreenBeams

@Carabiner Thanks very much!
the face is a WIP, yes but i'm not that good at them so she'll take a while. I'm struggling making something which looks stylised and still keeps the facial landmarks. Looking at Shane Olson's work and a ton of comics to try and figure out the form. Any advice or tutorials you know about which could help would be brilliant!

The back of the cape is mirrored, yes. I'm going to plead neeewb on this though because this is my second full character. I didn't want to take up too much of the texture sheet with an asymmetric cape. Would you suggest that i do? Again, I've done one previously with a cape but it was mirrored and minimal on the UV space.

Any help/advice would be excellent as i'm ok at the sculpt part (day job in miniatures) but the rest is still very unfamiliar.

GreenBeams

Ok, so the face isn't going to plan xD

Can anyone point out to me where i'm going wrong. It's like i'm sculpting and my brain is saying 'yep, that's fine' but my eyes are going 'whaaaa? that's nothing like what you want!'
Here's what i'm after:

Here's where i'm at

And, for some reason, here's the body without a head... because!

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Apart from a few small touches a think the sculpt part is done!

Shrike

Im really bad at anatomy but sharper chin and face angle and sharper nose more upwards maybe

GreenBeams

@Shrike Cheers! i'm going to try to add those both when she's in retopo and a little more easy to wrangle

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Still chugging along with it but i'm calling the pistol done until final tweaking. It's not tidy by any means but, hopefully, i'll tie it all up together at the end. Yeah, that's what'll happen. Yeah. At the end.

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Closing in on finishing the low poly armour. It's currently at 14k: