and here's a progress of most of it, recording this can help me spot what im doing backwards and should fix as far as process goes.
Also a wip concept from a sprite. fun to invent details from pixels rather than shoving details into pixels.
@Ambivorous: impressive undertaking, looks like you could add a lot more purply-pink tones in there next time
Yeah I was just so overwhelmed that I missed a lot of colours, but at least I learned that without all those reds my drawing looks much less dry than the reference image.
I like the idea of drawing details from sprites - think I'll try that some time.
How do you record your drawing btw?
More cool dresses, Wolf. Where do you get the ideas from?

My faces are finally starting to look like the people I'm drawing from!

But I still have no idea what the important parts are for recognising faces.