Shania (Patreon)

This month's "Your Girl" is Shania from Shadow Hearts 2. 

Pose copied from reference. This time it was all about hands holding the axes. 

I don't often do characters with darker skin and the main reason is the scanner can be fickle. Too light and it won't show up, too dark and it get's darker than I intended.  and if I have to make corrections after I've shaded it, it'll usually stand out. 

So for this since getting her skin tone was crucial, I didn't shade it until I was 100% sure I wouldn't have to make any corrections. Then when I scanned it, I didn't convert it to B&W like usual and kept it grayscale and then fooled with the levels, and erased the smudges and whatnot.  

So while it doesn't have the darker linework my stuff usually does, I think it turned out pretty good.