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Bloodelf study

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This is a drawing of a Blood elf engineer from wow.
The reason she is mostly naked is because this was mainly just a study I did to test out some different rendering. (I'm going to draw a fully armored version of her later on)
The background is just sketchy, not meant to be anything special. I was focusing on skin and hair mainly. I've always had a lot of trouble with rendering hair and I'm always trying to figure out new methods of drawing it. Hopefully it looks good. It would be nice to get some opinions on the technique itself(not the subject matter).
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Sketchy background? It's 100x better than any of my backgrounds (when I can at all be bothered to draw them xD )

I think my only real critique about this is her breasts. For hardly wearing anything, it looks like she's either got serious breast implants or a nice big push-up bra. This effect, I think, is caused partly by the lighting effects on the top of her breasts which makes it look like they're held push or held up rather than hanging from that skin, and partly because, again the lighting but also the snug fit of her tabard makes it seem almost a tad too small for her breasts, stretching across them but not altering their form due to either implants or a padded push-up bra keeping the shape.

I could critique the large size of the eyes but maybe you're going for something a little manga-esque here? Or perhaps she's just young? (guessing from large eyes, round-ish face and short-ish ears.) Either way, I love the light effects around her eyes. I'm still trying to work out the light and shading of glowing eyes. I think actually that this picture might help me in that department! So a big thanks to you!

As for the rest, I like the soft skin colors and it feels like you really got her shapes down, even that nightmarish job of drawing a foot seen from the front! How did you manage?! D: