Beyond TV Safety

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Step Seven: A Farewell to the Old Arm

I isolated the right arm in one of the layers and rotated and pushed it out a bit more. The basic hand was not a real problem but I cleaned up the lines by using the skin color to trim them down a bit. I redid the ruffles, changing the shape and adding in more highlights. I also redid the bracelet, adding in some highlights and shadows, making it look metallic. The same effect was used for the metal band on the microphone.

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Step Eight: Ruffles - You Can't Fix Just One

Once I did the ruffles on the arm I got to thinking that the ruffles on the blouse probably should be the same color and material so I roughed in new, fluffier ruffles and used the same coloring.

Step Nine: Let Me (Re)touch Your Body, Baby

I selected the body and rotated it a bit to the right. Doing so gave somewhat of a dynamic feel to it so I didn't fiddle with it too much besides that. I did retouch the color a little bit and added in new collarbone lines. The original lines were far too low. I redrew the strings on the blouse but completely forgot to redraw the bow. I should have scaled the body up more because the head ended up looking too large.
I trimmed the left arm down because the original was too thick, being half again as thick as the forearm, which should have been a bit foreshortened anyway.

Step Ten: Collar Me Transparent

When I was redrawing and painting the collar I originally intended it to be like the metal bracelets but when I was lining it up I had set it to be 65% opaque and the semi-transparent layer looked really good so I ended up leaving it that way. I did not redraw the little dingleball thingees on the sides.

Old collar

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New collar at 65% opacity

If I was redrawing the image I probalby would make the collar the exact same size as the bracelets and try to do the bracelets semi-transparent as well. Either that or change it to a dog collar sort of thing. I think ratty old thick dog collars look attractive on cute girls. No? OK, maybe not...