Helen Baq

Those are both awesome portraits!  Great job!  

Flysoup: I feel that hand should be larger. I presume he'd be holding it out in front of himself, so perspective would make it larger? Just how it seems to me.

I like the thin but not too thin nose.  

That second Dynaheir, the one with the lighter skin, is the one I like best out of the two. Not because she has lighter skin, per se, but rather because she looks like she has freckles. I really like freckles.  

The second Viconia looks awesome. She doesn't look like she has lighter skin, to me, but more like ambient light is shining on her face.  

I really love the new Viconia. It's bugged me for quite some time that she was powder blue with a pink nose! I like the new Branwen, but her septum looks a bit too narrow to me.

Your Dynaheir is spooky. I certainly wouldn't want to mess with her. I think I like the second to last one best, but I do agree that the bright purple cloth at the bottom tends to pull the focus down, away from her face. I've personally always loved Dynaheir's original portrait. It's got movement and emotion and is at a wonderful angle, artistically speaking. It reminds me of this picture from Aida by Seattle Opera:

Anyway, thanks for the nice portraits. I'll definitely be using the darker Viconia and I'm gonna try out that new Minsc, too.  

I'm very interested in taking a shot at this.