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This is my first painting of Firefighter Rachel Smith, the hero of my new comic Persons Reported. I have done lots of skethcbook work designing her, and am less than satisfied with this painting. I need to vary the brushstrokes of her hair to make it look more real and natural, and her face is a little swollen and overworked. Still, if you got everything right the first time round you'd lose all the satisfaction of improving.
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A sketchbook page of Smith, trying to show differnt expressions and still keeping her likeness.
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Firefighter Rachel Smith on the left, some pissed floozy sketched out of the newspaper on the right.
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