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Any feedback would be appreciated.

About two years ago, my two daughters asked me to draw a picture of "Princess Zelda". I did my best with it, but I never posted the result here, partially because some part of me was never quite satisfied with it. I couldn't seem to figure out how to take it further, however. Well, two years later, I came back to the picture. I tried running it through FaceApp, but the result was arguably worse than what I started with, so I set to editing. I was able to figure out some of the proportion and shading problems I had, and eventually got the picture settled into something more realistic looking, as seen above.

Some of you are going to ask "Which Zelda is this?" I couldn't tell you. I mostly just worked off of a general impression of Zelda appearance, but I'm not sure where I get the impressing I have from, since I'm not aware of any Legend of Zelda incarnations of Princess Zelda that match the one in my head. If anybody can offer hints about where my inspiration for this set of features may have come from, I'd be grateful, but I'm a bit stumped. The best I can come up with is a crossing of the animated series zelda with twilight princess and smash bros. Had I actually used a reference image, this might have turned out looking a lot different.

Made almost exclusively* with Clip Studio Paint Pro.

* I also added a very faint vignette with the window's photo app and I tried FaceApping it at one point (although the latter looked like a young child with a giraffe neck).

Description
Any feedback would be appreciated.

About two years ago, my two daughters asked me to draw a picture of "Princess Zelda". I did my best with it, but I never posted the result here, partially because some part of me was never quite satisfied with it. I couldn't seem to figure out how to take it further, however. Well, two years later, I came back to the picture. I tried running it through FaceApp, but the result was arguably worse than what I started with, so I set to editing. I was able to figure out some of the proportion and shading problems I had, and eventually got the picture settled into something more realistic looking, as seen above.

Some of you are going to ask "Which Zelda is this?" I couldn't tell you. I mostly just worked off of a general impression of Zelda appearance, but I'm not sure where I get the impressing I have from, since I'm not aware of any Legend of Zelda incarnations of Princess Zelda that match the one in my head. If anybody can offer hints about where my inspiration for this set of features may have come from, I'd be grateful, but I'm a bit stumped. The best I can come up with is a crossing of the animated series zelda with twilight princess and smash bros. Had I actually used a reference image, this might have turned out looking a lot different.

Made almost exclusively* with Clip Studio Paint Pro.

* I also added a very faint vignette with the window's photo app and I tried FaceApping it at one point (although the latter looked like a young child with a giraffe neck).