What do y'all make of this?
My first foray into vectoring. I took as basis a well-know drawing from Omnipresence in Wired:
The original drawing was hard to work with. For one, I had to design an entire new set of eyes for her (Photoshop), one that would properly express that right startled/supplicant upward look and light-source reflections.
I cheated a bit on the mouth. Which is to say, I pretty much kept the original one. It's just a few blurry lines, I know; but it expresses that subtle sense of desperation so well (she is, after all, crying, in case you hadn't noticed), that everything else I tried diminished it again.
Hair is a bitch, LOL. Seriously. I shaded the frontal plucks sticking out. And I overall tried to give it some sort of hair-like texture and glow to match the upper light-source (slightly to her top-right). Also, the original image is somewhat vague/blurry around her left ear, so it's hard to make out how exactly her hair flows. But clearly her left pony-tail, with her trademark X-shaped hair-band, is going behind her left ear (an unusual pose). So I honored Yoshitoshi ABe's design in that regard, too.
Please, tell me what you think.