Very nice and interesting style. The shading really brings everything out for the better :)

Thanks! I'm glad I spent a bit of extra time shading it since I've got a better idea of how to do the lighting when I come to painting it.

Hmmm, cool.

the eyes seem a little off, like they don't seem to be spaced evenly, I can't help but feel like that may be distorting the picture ^^;

I kinda see what you mean. Someone had pointed out to me that one of her irises was smaller than the other so that could be a large part of it. I'll check on the spacing as well, though.

Thanks very much!
I'm still trying to decide where I want to cast the shadow on her. I originally thought to cast it over most of her face but that'd leave an odd line across her cheeks. The forehead would work, if not for me wanting to have the light from overhead as if she's out in the midday sun, so I'll probably cast it over her shoulders and chest. I've got a good reference pic for it so I'll be trying that out.

I actually spent quite a lot of time working on the lips for some reason. Even if this is just a sketch, I still wanted to get them looking right.

Overall though, I'm a little intimidated by the idea of painting this one up for real. All part of challenging myself though, since I don't know how it'll turn out! Hopefully it'll like like I want it to :)

"Is this biggest hat you could find me?"

Truth be told, I'd considered giving her a much bigger hat :)

Looking good to me, plenty realistic.

Looks pretty good to me. The only thing is that her fingers seem just a tad off size-wise.

Aye, that's true indeed. I'll need to look up some reference to draw them properly since I kinda fudged it here if I'm honest ^^'

awesome work! :D

thats quite a sun hat