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It's with great pride that I present what I think is my finest work yet, and my new favourite of my many DOA fanarts. If you've seen Hitomi's DOA4 ending movie, then you'll recognise this scene, as I've attempted to base this pic on it, right down to the room, lighting and clothing. If you haven't, but want to, I'm sorry if I've spoiled anything for you - trust me though, there's much more to it than just this . It's taken quite a bit of hard work over the last few weeks, but it's well worth it, I think. The lineart is here: [link] and I think it's the first one to not recieve ANY constructive criticism, so I knew I was onto a winner from then. Please don't feel you have to read through all of this lengthy description. As always, this is only for people who are particularly interested, and also for me to keep a record of how things went. You're welcome to ignore everything below.

I've never been completely happy with the way I've drawn Hitomi's face in the past. Even though I gradually improved over the years and months, it never seemed quite close enough to her in-game model, but this is by far the closest I've come, and I'm REALLY happy with it. It's partly the eyes, because aswell as getting them the right shape and size, I've also tried adding extra lines above them to represent the open eyelids and some subtle "eye skin" (I'm sure that's not the right term, but that's what I'll call it - basically the weird red stuff in the inner corners of eyes, and on the edges), which I normally neglect, plus I've taken more care with her eyebrows. After my previous success with Tina's mouth, I was quite confident about this one, having learned some secrets about how the lips should look, and this one was done all by myself, largely without reference pics, and I think it's even better. I can still see myself looking back on this in a few months time and shuddering at it, like I always do, but for now, this is my best face!

The hair is nice, about as perfect as I would want it, and is it just me or have they lengthenned Hitomi's hair for DOA4 by about an inch or two? Seems that way in the ending at least, and I've tried to convey that here. While that wonderfully loose shirt was quite difficult to both draw and colour, it mostly looks ok, although perhaps a bit too loose. Fortunately, I took many screenshots from a high quality movie file I have of the ending sequence and was just about able to see the "I'm hungry Peko Peko!" design with enough clarifty, otherwise I would have probably had to make something up there. I recreated this in a seperate .psd and pasted it in. The text isn't exactly the right font, but it'll do, and if you're wondering what the hell "Peko Peko" means, I understand it's Japanese for "Chomp Chomp" which makes it a little bit more coherent. The plates of food came out surprisingly well. I noticed in the real thing, the salad plate actually magically changes to a completely different design later on, so I stuck with the first one for both plates.

And then there's that background. This was also modelled closely on her actual kitchen, and I dunno how obvious it is, but those things hanging from the top are various large cooking instruments she has hanging from hooks. One of my best, and certainly most detailed backgrounds, but my main problem is a slight concern about perspective, and I wonder if we should be able to see a little bit of floor at the bottom of the pic, if the counter is far enough away that it looks that out of focus. As we'd only be missing a bit of her leg, I wonder if it would be a good idea to crop the bottom off, perhaps. The lighting wasn't as difficult to capture as others I've attempted, and I'm quite pleased with the way it shines brightly out of that window.

And that's about it, I think. I hope you enjoy it, and that it was worth waiting for. Please tell me what you make of it! I'm dying to know. ^^

Description
It's with great pride that I present what I think is my finest work yet, and my new favourite of my many DOA fanarts. If you've seen Hitomi's DOA4 ending movie, then you'll recognise this scene, as I've attempted to base this pic on it, right down to the room, lighting and clothing. If you haven't, but want to, I'm sorry if I've spoiled anything for you - trust me though, there's much more to it than just this . It's taken quite a bit of hard work over the last few weeks, but it's well worth it, I think. The lineart is here: [link] and I think it's the first one to not recieve ANY constructive criticism, so I knew I was onto a winner from then. Please don't feel you have to read through all of this lengthy description. As always, this is only for people who are particularly interested, and also for me to keep a record of how things went. You're welcome to ignore everything below.

I've never been completely happy with the way I've drawn Hitomi's face in the past. Even though I gradually improved over the years and months, it never seemed quite close enough to her in-game model, but this is by far the closest I've come, and I'm REALLY happy with it. It's partly the eyes, because aswell as getting them the right shape and size, I've also tried adding extra lines above them to represent the open eyelids and some subtle "eye skin" (I'm sure that's not the right term, but that's what I'll call it - basically the weird red stuff in the inner corners of eyes, and on the edges), which I normally neglect, plus I've taken more care with her eyebrows. After my previous success with Tina's mouth, I was quite confident about this one, having learned some secrets about how the lips should look, and this one was done all by myself, largely without reference pics, and I think it's even better. I can still see myself looking back on this in a few months time and shuddering at it, like I always do, but for now, this is my best face!

The hair is nice, about as perfect as I would want it, and is it just me or have they lengthenned Hitomi's hair for DOA4 by about an inch or two? Seems that way in the ending at least, and I've tried to convey that here. While that wonderfully loose shirt was quite difficult to both draw and colour, it mostly looks ok, although perhaps a bit too loose. Fortunately, I took many screenshots from a high quality movie file I have of the ending sequence and was just about able to see the "I'm hungry Peko Peko!" design with enough clarifty, otherwise I would have probably had to make something up there. I recreated this in a seperate .psd and pasted it in. The text isn't exactly the right font, but it'll do, and if you're wondering what the hell "Peko Peko" means, I understand it's Japanese for "Chomp Chomp" which makes it a little bit more coherent. The plates of food came out surprisingly well. I noticed in the real thing, the salad plate actually magically changes to a completely different design later on, so I stuck with the first one for both plates.

And then there's that background. This was also modelled closely on her actual kitchen, and I dunno how obvious it is, but those things hanging from the top are various large cooking instruments she has hanging from hooks. One of my best, and certainly most detailed backgrounds, but my main problem is a slight concern about perspective, and I wonder if we should be able to see a little bit of floor at the bottom of the pic, if the counter is far enough away that it looks that out of focus. As we'd only be missing a bit of her leg, I wonder if it would be a good idea to crop the bottom off, perhaps. The lighting wasn't as difficult to capture as others I've attempted, and I'm quite pleased with the way it shines brightly out of that window.

And that's about it, I think. I hope you enjoy it, and that it was worth waiting for. Please tell me what you make of it! I'm dying to know. ^^