Here's another character portrait for the upcoming comic; the initial concept for a character named Leilani. She's the elite personal guard of a minor lord in the empire the story takes place in.

Though it's still somewhat under discussion, I think Infaela and I have agreed that bathing should be considered not only good manners in this particular culture, but almost ceremonial in its importance. So, I placed her by the bath.

Done in Photoshop 7.

EDIT:
03/10/04 6:39PM MST - Hopefully final update. Tinkered with the anatomy of her arm. Submitted a (properly sized) version to Epilogue's galleries again. Hopefully things will turn out better this time. ^^ Thanks for all of the comments~

For those who are interested in seeing the evolution of the picture, go to this [link] and make note of the filename. The first is leilani1a.jpg - I have versions a through j (this most recent one). Just change the letter at the end of the leilani1* to see each step since I first posted this at devART and Epilogue's WIP forum.