/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Two years ago a guy I talked to on a forum offered me a gig and asked for a portfolio piece to see what I could offer in the way of cool girl drawings.

I stayed up all night working on a commando girl. After laying in the basic figure I started getting reference for gear. Working from photographs I drew her boots and worked up from her feet.

Once I hit the torso problems started. I decided to go for an old school anime girl in the vein of Toriyama, but I didn't really know what I was doing. By the time I got to the head I was fucked. I had a huge existential panic attack, contacted the guy, told him I wasn't interested, then entered a suicidal funk for nine months where I swore off drawing and wanted to die. That was the last time I tried to make it. I only got my head together after giving up the ghost and getting a job in a warehouse.

In hindsight I think it looks OK from the waist down.

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This is what I was working on. I didn't draw her right arm because I was going to throw a blue M60 over her shoulder and print it to finish it off, but when I scanned it I realized how shitty it was and how much needed to be fixed.