amazing work 
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Impressive job with Willem Dafoe. It doesn’t have the same look as your others, this feels more like an impressionist technique. Was it a stand alone paint study or did you build the image like the ones from above (with an outline and guidelines)?
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Frieren still looking up I guess 
Though that’s obviously not the meme perspective…
Reminds me, did you ever finish that other Frieren scene with the hills in the background?
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@Lynx3d No I didn’t finish that one. This is an iteration of that Frieren.
Edit:
Technique test done
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Thanks for laying out your process. The core shadow alone is a good read.
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It always move to a more familiar angle when I don’t have reference and just rely on memory and fundamentals.
Edit, full sketch:
Tried my best to make her look like Frieren, hard to be sure since there’s not much to compare. Even when I look at other artist rendition, the style is so different it doesn’t help much. The closest to a good ref for me is cosplay photo of her because of the way I shade.
edit2:
going crazy
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Really loved it
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@pheonixe Thank you 
More detailed cross contour lines help, because I need to maintain the wide and round face of Frieren. Harder to keep her face wide when the early flat shade is in without the CC lines, my own bias will change her face structure to my preferred one.
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Need to learn to draw “quality lines” rather than “Quantity Lines”. One is calculated, the other is just hoping to be lucky.
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Funny, I just told that myself too…when redrawing my Frieren too because I wasn’t happy with the previous result.
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@Lynx3d We can only do a bunch of iterations to improve the chance it will look better.
edit : I shouldn’t talk
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@Lynx3d Same. You know it’s bad when there’s a brief moment of confusion when a bad line put on real paper doesn’t immediately disappear.
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This gonna be painful, I can’t tell for sure if the contrast is right. I assume it is right from the photo I use as light ref.
edit:
Can’t shake the urge to do freehand painting, since that is the easier way to do quick fix and iterations (I can only spot form mistakes when some shading already put in). Although having the line clearer make it easier to mark the core shadow placement which improve my ability to spot mistakes.
Anyone interested in coloring this Tifa? Here is the lines I made. If you do color it could you link me to your post, thank you.
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Hm I might do that, but with an adjusted version.
I noticed you made that fist much smaller, and I was wondering if that’s right or not, the perspective feels a bit ambiguous. Her butt and legs look like a thigh high wide angle shot, the rest more like a waist high standard lens, the left shoulder is too high otherwise.
I figured I need to pose a model to solve the mystery, and after a lot of fiddling, I had a good angle and could figure out some adjustments:
But then again, this model has its issues with proportions and deformations…modeling my own is on my todo list…
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Please, feel free to do adjustment and fixes. My intention is to see how people do adjustments and fixes and finalize their render.
I never trust my own line drawings, hence I tried so hard making process that I can salvage at any point. Haven’t been really a success, but the point of these practice is to solidify this more flexible process. Although It always go back to freehand painting that is really chaotic.
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Tifa is getting gorgeous with each WIP present.
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