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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 898206" data-attributes="member: 1025">She's wearing a girdle of storm giant strength around her middle. Even if her waist is tiny and delicate (which it isn't), the girdle is a fairly substantial construction, plus she's wearing armor under it. Even though elven chain is thin and light, you probably have to wear some quilted underthings under it or risk serious chafing and little ring shaped bruises when you take an impact.The sketch is done from a photo of an actual person. Going back to the original model, you were completely right about the shoulders, but I think the hips about match the model's at this point. The waist is already considerably thinner--and that woman was wearing leather armor and no girdle. Well, none that was showing. I chose her because I liked her confidence, heft and stolid stance. I'm still fooling with getting Tao to bear that weight without making her quite as heavyset. I'll look at the hips again and see if there's something I've missed there.Another person mentioned to me about the head, and I'll look in to it. I'm just not sure though. The shoulders and chest are powerfully muscled, and armored on top of that. If you look a football players without their helmets on, their heads do look kind of small in comparison to their padding. And she has to be standing fully erect, chin up. No slouching. Bringing the head down too much really runs the risk of making her look slouchy.You're right about the bow.  I hestitated to do it when I got started because of some technical probelms, but I should have the tools I need to do the job now.  Although it may look a bit odd. Most people aren't used to seeing the shape of a completely unstrung bow. May just look like a thin staff. Which is fine by me, but it would work better compositionally if it wasn't going off the page so quickly.Thanks for the input--keep it coming.</blockquote>

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