this one was tough! the wires took me forever, and i'm still not super happy with them, although i'm a *lot* happier than i was before (i was about to give up on the idea of having exposed wiring because i couldn't make it look right).
otoh, i really like her pose, the concept, and oddly enough, i think that the nipples came out extremely well lol.
normally i try to write more than this but dang i'm tired now.
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lol one long nap later i feel a bit more willing to write/reflect a bit more about it.
i mean the main intereting feature of this piece is the exposed wiring, and i feel like it mostly came out okay overall, but there are some parts, in particular the wiring on her lower torso, where it makes her skin (or whatever it is) look a bit thin. i could have fixed this with better shading, i think (with a couple more colors, it seems very likely), but at the time when i was drawing in the wires i was just kinda... exhausted lol.
the wiring on her neck mostly looks good, conversely. although i think the collar area looks a bit flat. the larynx area looks pretty nice though, i think that was a nice touch and i should have done something like that in the torso, to break up the monotony.
as i mentioned above, i think the nipples came out really nice. sure, real nipples don't look that shiny, but something about them looks very good.
one thing that, now that i have clearer eyes, doesn't work at all is the skin highlights. the white i used for the light skin highlight and the white i use for the skin are too close, you can't see it at all unless you know to look for it.
i also think the green (pseudo-shaved) part of her hair looks a bit odd. but maybe that's fine?
anyway, overall this was a pretty ambitious piece and i'm happy with it. i'd like to do more stuff like this in the future, with robo-girls with some exposed internals (not full on mechabare, but similar vibes). probably not with quite the same character, since i want to iterate on the parts of the design i don't like.
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