This is a portrait commission for Akina Tokuwa from Gaia. Since it was to be of her in real life, I decided to try semi-realism with this (note: I can't do realism to save my life, that's why I say 'semi' realism). Anyway, it looked really good as a sketch, but once I starting trying to shade it, especially the face, I started noticing several faults with it. It took me three tries at the skin to get it to look decent. I was near ready to scrap the whole thing but a few friends convenced me to finish.

I'm happy with the overall look, despite the fact that the head is too big compaired to the shoulders. Just more practice that I need. My favorite part of the piece is the hair.

To me, this looks much better when viewed full. Smaller views only make the faults more noticeable in my opinion XD;