Models: BioWare's Posed and initially lightened in XNALara Bunch of brushes, background, post-work: Photoshop.
That husk in the corner - mommy!...
~EDIT (description)~ Without dwelling into any symbolism (other that Lia is by default awesome cuz she's "Shepard"), like reapers or favourite squaddies, I put Lia rather as a "part of the image" more than "subject of the image". She's still in the center, but there's still something around her that may catch your attention - a fellow N7 and an Alliance soldier fighting beside her.
I could've borked something out of the headache and leave some jagged edges here and there on the original version, you won't see them here.
Credits: BioWare as I used their models and I'm playing with them. LemnosExplorer for the background picture. I had no idea for the background until I stumbled over that piece of cityscape. Bunch of People for brushes - I lost the names long long ago but they are here on dA.
Cool art, nice work on the details. One thing I always wanted to happen at some point in the Mass Effect series was for Shepard to one day run into an N7 marine that was in his/her graduating N7 class. Or maybe Kai Leng was Shepard's rival back in N7 training?
Looks awesome! Positioning looks great too! Not easy to do.
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