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How do I expressions? Her smile seems a bit insincere or forced to me.
Still struggling with colours, what colours to pick for the shading and the lighting, trying to keep in mind a bit that colours will reflect on eachother and such stuff... sort of. I'm trying.

Portrait of my GW2 Thief lady, Thalei. Usually cheerful, in some regards a bit odd to say the least.

reference used for pose and expression:
:iconstladybird:
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Drawn with SAI and using a tablet
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MaximLardinois's avatar
Lighting and picking colours are so hard to master it's not even funny! Confidence in your own experiments and practice of the principles are key to getting it down!
As for expressions, keep in mind that when someone smiles the muscles and skin folds in his/her entire face changes along like how your lower eyelids come up a little when you smile, for example!

Nevertheless this painting is a great practice piece, I clearly see you've done your observations and such, all you need now is practice :)