Draw this again: A simple girl

Continuing with my New Year project of redrawing old pieces from the previous years, here's one of my first attempts at painting a woman digitally. I hadn't figured out rendering yet, proportions are a mess and the composition is non existent.

This time around I opted to fix the pose, make sure the subject was in focus, play around with the design a bit and really show a good level up of my skills.

It's not perfect, but it's a solid improvement. There's still some things I figured out while painting, such as trying to layer on colour using oil paint style brushes but with a ink pen styled lineart doesn't look great (it only turned out okay because I ended up just flattening everything). The next piece will be a further test of my skills. This piece was a character redraw, and the one before was an environment. So now I'm going to tie them together and do an environment illustration with a character.