Blog #12 - I Can't Do Faces Edition + Alpha Protocol

by alistercat

So... back on the work train I've done another illustration. I decided to finally upload my illustrations to my website which you can view here . I made a front page banner for my previous illustrations, as before I only had one of them. Here it is: Godot, Gant, Gumshoe, Edgeworth Anyway, back to the new illustration. Frankly, I shouldn't have bothered. After Damon Gant which I thought turned o...

Godot, Gant, Gumshoe, Edgeworth
Anyway, back to the new illustration. Frankly, I shouldn't have bothered. After Damon Gant which I thought turned out pretty good I wanted to do Emma Skye and while I don't mind the work I did on her clothes and stuff (that bow is fucking great :p) I realised that I still can't do people's faces. Especially in her case as there is very little detail to it... but I don't know. It kind of ruins the whole image. I would love some opinions, and hopefully some advice on how to do faces.

Here it is:
Ema Skye, aspiring Scientific investigator. Likes chocolate Snackos. Age 15, scientifically speaking.
Yeah, now that's out of the way. I might have to hang up my hat on doing these illustrations if this is how they are going to turn out. I will have to at least do Phoenix Wright, but that might be my last one ever because it's so frustration putting myself out there trying to do these illustrations which aren't even that good, but really wanting to do better. I felt like I was getting better but with this, I don't know.

What else is going on? I bought Alpha Protocol for £5 in the Steam sale. I was very cautious after, thinking "why did I do that?" but I was curious and in the end I'm so glad I did. The game is broken and flawed in many different ways but I can say as an overall player experience I really enjoyed it. I don't care about judging it too much, I am not a curator for a 'best games ever made' museum. I am allowed to expose myself to troubled games. Really enjoyed the 20 hours I put in to it and for £5 that's a bargain. I did cheat so that I could play the Veteran class first time round but I knew that was because I wouldn't give this a second go and I won't. At least not for a couple of years.

Thanks for reading, if you did. Not that many people read my blog for obvious reasons. It's usually just... this. But if you did I'd like comments and feedback. Stuff like that. Perhaps show me some of your Phoenix Wright fan art.

Here are my previous illustrations of Phoenix Wright characters:
Detective Gumshoe
Prosecutor Godot
Diego Armando
Miles Edgeworth
Damon Gant