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Just to set the record straight, this character is not supposed to be especially beautiful. She's supposed to look distinct first and foremost.
Why do you connect beautiful people to anime? What made you think that I take reference from anime? My erect penis is now enraged thanks to you.
For starters, it was a suggestion with a bold opinion, not a hate mail. Secondly, it seems to have been edited since my post. Or then I'm just wrong and my standards for a fine lady have been changed dramatically. Sadly, men also have a wide variety of features and some might even share the same traits with this "obvious female" of yours. I pointed out things that would make this female more like a female based on my taste and opinion, because I personally prefer women that doesn't look like a trap. When I want to draw a woman, beauty becomes my ultimate goal and that's just fucking because. You on the other hand can portait your normal people with all the gusto your heart desires. And if I meet one of those submissions, I might be nice enough to take responsibility and send the purpose of your message back at you.
I disagree with smilescythe. It's obviously, unequivocally female; real life isn't anime, and real women have a wide variety of features. The shape of the head and the shoulder/trapezius is really the dead giveaway.
I really hate this trend where everything polarizes gender depictions into being overwhelmingly, stereotypically female or male. Seriously - can we not have characters that are built like real people? Is every such depiction gonna have some hater complaining it doesn't look clearly one gender or another, at a glance? Because that's exactly why genres like anime and such have such boring, generic looks for all the characters in them - because social exposure punishes everyone who breaks the mold.
It's kind of a long story about the glasses, but I did do that on purpose. As for the shirt, yeah, I agree, but I'm prolly gonna repixel it (again), so oh well! Anyway, thanks.
Why would an albino wear red coloured glasses? 
Nice work though. She looks sinister. Not so keen on the lack of shade on the shirt just underneath the collar. Looks lazily unfinished compared to the rest of the piece.
I messed with it. Is it better now? Thanks for the feedback, guys.
Agree with the others. I thought this was a man at first glance. Mouth, jaw and thick eyebrows. Unless you don't mind that the she could be mistaken for a man.
I agree with Smilecythe. The pixel technique is good but the form needs work.
Her mouth and jaw looks slightly too masculine. Wearing a tie on top of that can create some extra doubt concerning her gender. It's a nicely done piece otherwice.
So very smooth! If i didn't know better i would say this was an actual picture. Very good work here sir.
@smilecythe: anime was just a good example, since a few series are heinously guilty of this, but the same thing's true about a lot of other comic styles. My beef is basically how - if you ditch the unique costuming elements, and hair, every character's face is constructed exactly the same way. Works on silver-age DC comics. Works on Inuyasha, DBZ, lots of stuff. It's hard to put my finger on exactly why it bugs me; all I know is it really seems to cheapen the work, because it really has an effect on the emotional characterization of the people being portrayed. It makes everyone seem ... sort of generic and lifeless - it's fine when you see one character drawn a certain way, but once you're onto character #5 that looks exactly like the others, they start to not feel like people any more, and start feeling kinda like mass-produced dolls or something with different hair stuck on them. Kinda like the uncanny valley, in a way.
It's not about standards of beauty, it's about having more than one way to draw a face. I'm all for making female portraits beautiful, but make them unique whilst you're at it, or they all look like creepy clones.