Here is another very early sketch of. . . .well, I suppose just another fancifully colored female. I have a lot to work on with this one. Perhaps I’ll see this one through to the end. I used Michelle Ryan this time as a photo reference.

Ach, the poor girl. She looks like the different parts of her face and hair have been stuck on like stickers…

Here is an initial sketch of Yvonne Strahovski, actress on the TV show Chuck and the face and voice of Miranda from Mass Effect 2.

Ok, I am getting to know my Photoshop tools a little better, but Tali’Zorah from Mass Effect 2 still looks like a blue human female (once again, thanks to the lovely Ms. Brooklyn Decker). This is a rough sketch, although I am pretty slow at using colors, so even this took me about an hour to complete. I’ll see what I can do with this one and the previous one to make them more alien.

Since this is supposed to be an online “sketchbook” I really should be posting whatever I sketch — good or bad; pencil, pen, or photoshop. So here is an early picture of one of the characters of Mass Effect 2 without her helmet — Tali’Zorah. I have fallen into the trap that most people do when they attempt to draw Tali without her helmet on — you end up with a pretty humanoid with elven features. In this case, since she is loosely based off of Brooklyn Decker, I can see why this has happened to me as well.

She still needs a lot of work, and I still have to figure out how much hair, if any, she should have. I post more pics as it comes along, when and if it does.