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Thats funny, I thought I uploaded this, but it seemed to have failed.

Anyway, this is me trying to colour that Azula sketch I made. As you can see, I'm not very good at it. The last time I tried colouring humans looked like this: [link]

So as you can see, this is quite different. I didn't initially plan on putting in so much detail into my character, but due to a lack of scanner, I was forced into doing so because of the grey background . If I had a nice white background I could just colour it in like I did with that angel, and then spend all my time making my fire look nice and cool. Unfortunately, now I need to spend even more time on the character.

Still, this is also a learning exercise. As you can see, I'm trying to be less shy about contrast between dark and light areas...although since I have no reference, I'm still quite lost.

I think the skin on her hand is better than on her face. The skin on her face just looks...zombie-like . Maybe it'll look alright once I add the red of her outfit...

Comments, crits, and LOTS of advice is welcome! Please try to give advice in layman's terms, as I am newb to photoshop and all you see here is the result of nothing more than the airbrush tool and varying the opacity levels. Did I mention I did this with a mouse? I have no neat tablet thing.

Ugh...it took me like...half a minute of thinking to come up with 'tablet'. I think my brain's exploded with the time I spent on this...

EDIT: Gave her a healthier skintone .

EDIT 2: Updatred with current status . Her outfit is by no means finished yet!