This is a piece im working on for pitching an RPG to potential team members.

It's a portrait type piece of aphrodite the greek goddess, i plan to eventually place it within a shape and fill it with symbols related to the goddess (confusing yes, but it looks good in my head)

This is just a few screen grabs of the journey up until now (I forgot about them for about an hour, which is why it skips straight to basic structure and shading).

Drafting the piece (i suck at drawing, but it gets the job done).


Basic shading on the toga/robe thingy and i detailed the face a bit.


Starting on the head area, decided on corkscrew curls and a rose pin (may need to change the hue of the rose to a deeper crimson red).


I'll probably update this as I progress.

UPDATE:

I'll just continue with this even though the forums arent so active. It'll save time, although i may end up looking weird.

-Planned out backdrop and elements. The rose and dove are a symbol of Aphrodite, the half circle i may turn into that female cross circle thing.


-Nearly finished with detail in the hair, although the right side seems perhaps too round. The bloody claw was an idea a friend gave me to represent betrayal (features within Aphrodite myth quite a bit)

For this step I tried using the darker skin/hair colour that is also the base colour for the rose as Aphrodite's shadow. Im leaning towards the darker blue over the crimson.

(crimson shadow version)


Any and all suggestions are welcome. Terribly sorry for the massive dump of images, my apologies to anyone with slow internet.