I’m going to have to call this body/outfit “done,” even though it’s not, if I want to finish this thing on time….which I probably won’t   Her head positioning and neck are really bothering me, so I’ll be fixing that as well as some other proportional issues, but as far as detailing out the high res goes, this is pretty much it.

My entry probably isn’t the most exciting of WIPs (especially in comparison to a lot of the other killer work being done for this competition), but I think things will come together more once I get to the texturing/lighting stage. I’m planning on relying on other things aside from a heavy normal map, but we’ll see how well that goes in the end.

The sculpt  on her hair is just temporary geometry to make it easier to build the low poly alpha hair.

Lately I’ve been struggling with the design of her instrument.  It’s pretty hard to think of a cool pose with her sitting down playing a guqin, and having her play such an instrument vertically doesn’t make any sense, so I’ve been thinking of changing it to a guzheng, or perhaps some sort of guqin/guzheng hybrid.  I suppose I should do some pose sketches and decide then.  A guzheng might also give her a stronger presence, which may fit the theme of the contest better.