Jill Valentine WP

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After watching the RE movies again I had an uncontrollable urge to do an image of my favorite Resident Evil character, Jill Valentine. She may have some awful voice acting in the games (though Sienna Guillory in the second movie was pretty hot), but I still like her.

I decided to play around with cell shading by selection for this pic. I don't do it much so it's still a learning experience with me. I was originally going to do more of a Sienna RE Apocalypse look rather than a RE3 Nemesis look but with my simplified style it was much easier to a: not try and caricature Sienna and b: not draw all the extraneous gear on her shoulders and waist. This made for a cleaner character design which is better suited to this style anyhow.

I also decided to forgo highlights for everything but her hair and eyes and did my shading without feathering my selections (as I normally do). I think this supports the vectorized lines better and keeps the shading more subtle. As I said this was an experiment for shading as much as it was a tribute picture (and another cheap trick for more views), so I would like to know how you think it worked.



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