I've spent too long tweaking this one. It started out as a portrait of the actress Cara Gee from a still of The Expase. I got it to a point where I was vaguely happy, then decided to take a copy before I tweaked the shadow intensity on the face, and started refining details of the clothing and hair. After that i wasn't sure which I preferred.



The lighting in this was a pain - her face being lit from two sides, and slightly behind made it difficult to capture the shape of the features, but I think I managed it just about, even if it took a while and is rather rough. After the second version, I decided to try re-lighting the head from my imagination, simplifying to just one light-source plus ambient light enough to keep the face lit. As I got along with that, I decided also to repurpose the portrait as a character portrait for one of my ongoing TTRPG characters, Jasmine Newpaw. I adjusted the shape of her jaw and cheeks, the nose slightly, tweaked the expression of her eyes and eventually re-drew them, added storm trooper armour (which I have no idea how to render well) and finally changed her hairstyle and lighting.