Used some new brushes i made the other day for a project, one of them was made to imitate the flat marker brush in mspaint because im just a big fan of how it works, and the other is a 3-dot long brush i made to make drawing in some texture easier, but it works well fgor breaking up blocks of colour (i think, at least) I think i made her snout look a little flat, i should probably have tried to make it look a bit rounder - their heads are always a little strange, especially when colouring them (though im probably just not practiced. I tried to keep her pretty close to her sa2 colours, i really like the orange skin they gave her in that game because i think it works really well with the pink cuffs shes got, and its just a nice colour. They made her paler in later games, same with basically every other character and i think its a shame because those bright saturated colours really suit them.

I think its a general trend with modern games to desaturate things, which is a shame! Modern visual styles for games kind of all blend together into one "kinda realistic" soup, when games from 20 years ago all looked starkly different. Halo CE is the first one i think of, it really sucks they never did the reflective beetle-looking armour past that one, i think it really helped make it feel "sci fi" if that makes any sense. Not that the newer armour in the later games are bad, thats far from true, halo 2 & 3 both do a great job changing it up, but the original is the first one i think of first despite not being the one i played as a kid, because it stands out so much. It's bright and colourful, same with a lot of the outside areas of that game, it has a lot of bright greens and blues, though it also has those gunmetal grey bases so its not like the change came from nowhere. I think his almost pearlescent suit really helped make him stand out, even more today when you think of what "power armour soldier" usually refers to.