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Published: 2009-04-16 16:04:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 13437; Favourites: 78; Downloads: 1554
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This is an image of Sorscha Kratikoff, a character created by Privateer Press, Iron Kingdoms.She's usually armored up, but I wanted to draw her as close to Nekked as I could and still show. So here she is looking over a wound after battle.
Photoshop CS3 and Wacom tablet.
Edit: made both of her hands bigger... too small. Also some detail tweaks. Changes made from comments made below, thanks gals!!
Edit: one more... sorry!
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Wow. I like it a lot.
Fans tend to draw their favourite ladies always with the same body type posing like a pin-up model while wearing something resembling a bikini, but this is really in character. She's a tough one.
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I agree. Staying in character is important for fanart pics. Otherwise it's like taking the face of a character and sticking it onto a generic sexy body. Yeah, it looks kinda right. But there's no established familiarity to back it up. (If that makes sense.)
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Thx much!! glad you like.
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maybe you should do a similar themed piece of her standing
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DAMN that's one buff girl! Appropriately Khadoran. She looks awesome. That wound looks more like it stings like a bitch than is any real worry. ^^
I agree with Murasaki, her arm looks odd. I don't think it's a matter of it being too thick, because, as has been mentioned, she's got some muscle. I think it's a matter than her hand and wrist look a little small in comparrison, and that her forearm isn't defined against her elbow, which makes it look kind of short. Not trying to be a critic, as it's way better than I could ever do (as is all of your art), but I think that's why Murasaki saw something odd about it. The definition of the muscles themselves look awesome, however.
The colours are great, as always. Muted and lovely.
Also: Props on the underboob (a shamefully underutilized part of the female anatomy). The shape and way they sit is really well done. One can tell you put a lot of love and effort into studying tits. 
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Her hands are too small... damn! Anyway, I've made some corrections... made both hands bigger and moved the muscles in her arm a bit. I think it makes them more in proportion to her head. Thanks for the comments!!
and... underboob is hot.
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Quite welcome. The edit looks great.
Agreed, underboob ftw.
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I would never suggest such a thing!! Seeing as how they are best friends.
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Right, like a cobra and a mongoose I'm sure.
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Haley is a goddess of war.
Sorscha is kinda like the counterpart to Khador.
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Yeah, I know. Just funny how for the most part CAN get along.... expect Cryx; nobody likes undead.
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Gee, this is pretty close to a fanfic scene I wrote a while back! 
Her battle-worn armor looks excellent.
My only quibble is with her right arm. The pushed-up sleeve isn't behaving or rumpling quite the way a tough wool (or leather?) garment would fold. It looks like thin silk, the way it is rumpled. Her forearm and elbow also look a bit too "thick" to me, but that may be simply because you cropped the image through her elbow and so I don't get to see the negative space that would define her arm. I hope that makes sense?
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Unfortunately clothing is a weakness for me, and I'm too lazy to look at reference. 
As far as the arm, I made her pretty big... in the initial sketch it looked okay to me, the cropping may have something to do with what you're seeing, not sure.
Thanks much for the comments!!
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What you need are a couple of action figure dolls with real clothing to pose and stare at when you need some quick reference. I have been known to fashion quick "clothing" out of kleenex and drape it around my studio models (those poseable sketching mannikins we used in art class) as a quick check for how fabric might fold or wrinkle. Do you have any of the LOTR action figures?
I do believe Sorscha is probably in the "middleweight" division in terms of bodybuilding, so strong arms would not surprise me at all. She's got to be strong enough to move and even fight in dead warcaster armor, and that is classed as "medium" armor in D&D terms, so it isn't terribly light.
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As a matter of fact I do have some LOTR characters.
I looked the image over again... flipped it upside down and Horizontally. The hands are definitely too small, especially when comparing them to her head, which also made the arm look funny. I made some changes to both her arms and the rumpled clothing (clothing didn't turn out as well).
Thanks for the sharp eyes!!
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You're very welcome! Those LOTR characters would do for "draping" if you needed to check out how stuff looks on a human figure. I have one of the Ringwraiths that was produced dressed in fabric robes and he's very helpful for stuff like long cloaks or coats.
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she really resembles the tough woman look of Khador, great work!
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