Red arrives, and her name is Rena! Sorry for the wait. I hope you're all not disappointed! I'm not totally happy with the green lipstick, but I wanted something to bring out her eyes. Though jpeg compression algorithms seem to handle the red on green poorly. As I was working on this character last night, I came across an interview with Tomonobu Itagaki, the mastermind of the Dead or Alives series of fighting games. He talked about the dilemma that all character designers face. It's basically that everyone has an idea of perfection, of beauty. The way we identify individual faces is by subconsiously noting their flaws, noting the ways they fail to match perfection. Individuality and beauty are mutually exclusive concepts. It's the struggle to find balance that plagues character designers. This really lit a light bulb for me. I was frustrated at how every face I created ended up looking like Daru, because in my mind's eye, that is pretty much the perfect face. If I strayed too far, it wasn't as beautiful as it could be. Oola does have a different face than Daru, but it is still quite similar. Recognizing this struggle allowed me to give Rena a different, unique face that is still quite beautiful. Thank you for your comments and for looking! Feedback is great!