I felt like I was in an art slump for the past few drawings, so I wanted to focus solely on a headshot. It's been a while since I've drawn Catwoman, so... here she is.I like to think of Selina as a socialite who was simply born in the wrong social class, so I tried to convey that here. Using Adam Hughes' work as inspiration, A photo of Audrey Hepburn served as my reference, but I realize I captured zero likeness of her here -- I clearly just went in a different direction despite my best intentions. The background was just thrown together, as usual, and led to me using a lighting scheme that was angled upward, with weaker sources of light from the buildings around and above her. Please let me know how that worked out -- I consider shading without an exact reference to duplicate to still be a weakness of mine (the photo I was using was lighted from above).As a side note, I know Selina has black hair, but given the amount of black used elsewhere in this picture and the general ugliness I wind up with when I try to highlight black hair, I opted to use very dark brown instead. Artistic liberties, yo.

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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.