Jane Ryder - Fanart for the upcoming Andromeda

A J. C. Leyendecker study

Thank you very much! I tried to make her interesting, and not necessarily beautiful in a conventional way with her funny nose and a rather strong jawline for a girl

A Dryad Archer

I really wanted to put a helmet on her, but I'm not sure it works. Making glass work is really hard.

I really wanted to make an underlit, menacing tone. The character is stern, and unapologetic, so I tried to showchase just that. Originaly I made the whole picture in black and white to get the values to work, and apllied color in around the middle of the workthrough. But it still felt monochromatic with all the blue tones, and not very interesting to look at. So I decided to mess around whit some colorisation on the face, as this was my focalpoint. I wanted to frame it to make it stand out more, so I put on a glass helmet, this way the face wouldn't get covered. I looked at a lot of helmets, and glass object and found that sometimes the light or the camera (I'm not sure which) changes the colours or obscures them on the endges. This gave me the idea to mess around with the channels. Then to pull the attention away from the outter circle, I decrased the saturation, and brightness a bit on the top, and made it glow more where it met with shoulder piece. That little yellowish part was just a happy accident when my photoshop glitched out, and I kept it because it looked interresting to me.
Hope this answers the question Thank you for the comment!