Assassin Recruit

A female Assassin recruit from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, created in HeroMachine.

I like how this came out, but my God what a chore it was to get this looking just right. I'm getting better with learning the tools and tricks in HeroMachine, but even so this one was such a pain to get done. There's so many bits and pieces that went into this figure and every single pieces overlaps another piece meaning I had to work my butt off to make sure everything was at the exact right layer.

I think the biggest chore was the gauntlets. For some reason even though HeroMachine has palm-up hand pieces, all the gauntlet pieces are drawn to work with palm-down hands. So I had to take two gauntlet pieces and use the re-sizing tool to shrink them down width-wise until they looked enough like the bottom half of a pair of gauntlets. I'm still not too terribly happy with how they came out, but it was the best I could do.

The lip color was another thing that gave me trouble. I wanted to leave her lips the same color as her skin because I figured an Assassin would have bigger things to worry about than making sure her lipstick is even. But she looked really damn weird with no color in her lips. I don't know why, but she did. So I thought I'd just bite the bullet and slap some lipstick on her, logic be damned. Then while I was coloring her lips I hit the wrong color box and realized super-dark red on her upper lip and flesh tone on her lower lip looked just perfect.

Also, yes, I left the eyes off on purpose. I wanted her eyes to be shadowed by the hood like in most of the publicity photos of the Assassins, but the shadow effect wasn't dark enough to work. So I left the eyes off entirely and got sorta-kinda the same effect.

EDIT: Re-colored the cape because I remembered the Assassins' capes are red on the inside and white on the outside.

EDIT2: Figured out how to darken the shadow of the hood to hide the eyes.