Artwork: Maimed Tiefling

Symmetry can be hard—or just plain boring. Of course when you're working digitally, you can always just copy and flip the eyes, face, clothes, whatever—except it never actually quite works. The human eye is rather good at picking up when something is too symmetrical, and so the result leaps giddily down into the uncanny valley.

And that assumes that the perspective is symmetric: that the subject is looking directly at the viewport with nary a shift of the head, shoulders or hips. So in practice, even if two sides of the same subject are all but identical, you still need to draw the other side manually (though you can always use the 'flipped copy' as a guide for your brush).

Or, you know, you can just cheat and make the subject not so symmetric after all, possibly via doing horrible things to the subject in your imagination, like petrifying and breaking off pieces of her body.

It doesn't matter what was done to her before. She's here now.

This is the first drawing in a slightly different style than previous artworks—the use of a thicker pen for outlines, as well as a general decision to step back from overly detailed shading and texturing. We'll see how it pans out.

Yes, I really need to get better at drawing hands.

A higher-resolution version of this artwork, along with the line-art and a 'cold' variant, can be found on Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qQan8L.