Ryss Portrait 1

I usually get ultimately very frustrated with doing portrait-ish work regarding my own personal characters, but this is the first time I actually liked it more than disliked it. It's a quick (for me!) portrait piece of one of the characters for a franchise I'm developing (both for print and for the mobile gaming market).

The strength and weakness is that as a character she's a bit commonplace, nothing terribly striking about her that I felt needed to be added just to make her stand out; it's not her tail to be visually striking per se, a lot of it comes from her actions and abilities. Maybe I'm just boring... hahaha ^_^

Anyways, it was done in straight Photoshop (CS3) which was new for me going purely digital with character work. Nothing fancy, just a couple of texture layers in her hair and some noodling around with brush opacities. Thanks for checking this out