Did my first more complex edit.
Great edit! You can't even tell it's an edit unless you zoom in and look for details.
I tried to give her more muscle around the shoulders and arms without much luck. Does anyone have any advice?
There are few ways I can think of for adding more muscle to her arms, none of them perfect:
1. You could cut her arm to its own layer and then use the Warp tool in Photoshop to make it beefier. The result will likely look blurry and/or horrendous though.
2. You could look through the art of the ladies with the most muscle (Wonder Woman, Donna Troy etc.) for an arm in a similar position and fuse that arm into your picture. It might be a long shot to find one that matches what you have in mind, though.
3. You can draw your own, more muscular arm using the existing arm as a reference (and later, as a base for the colors). This is basically what I did in
my Galatea edit when I made her left arm. I drew new lines using the Brush tool, looking at other artwork to try to get the anatomy correct (or rather, line up with how Sunset draws his characters). It's very time-consuming if you're like me and not an artist.
There's also the problem that more muscle does not simply mean the arm is going to be thicker, the muscles are also going to be more defined, which adds to the difficulty.
I wish I had better advice!
Let me know if there is anything I can improve on.
The transitions between body parts under her belly button could be smoother. The way I make smooth transitions between body parts in different layers in Photoshop is by using Layer Masks.
Layer Masks uses a greyscale overlay to mask parts of the layer, going from black (fully masked) to white (fully visible). A grayish color in the Layer Mask means transparency and that makes for great transitions that are invisible to the eye.
With the Layer Mask selected, I set my Brush opacity to something low (like 10%), and paint the edge of the upper layer with fully black color a couple of times, watching it blend into the lower layer with each stroke. If I mask too much, I swap the Brush color to white and paint the same area again to restore visibility. You can go back and forth like that and really fine-tune the transition if you use a very low Brush opacity.
Since Layer Masks don't change anything in the layer, you can paint in the Mask until you get a perfectly smooth transition without permanently editing your layer.
Another, surprisingly simple edit is to add sweat drops to Galatea's body to make it consistent. She currently has sweat drops over her entire body, except for her abs and her face.
The way Sunset draws sweat drops is so simple that anyone can make their own. Just look at Galatea's right boob and the two drops under her nipple. Those two shapes - the hook shape and the U shape - are basically the only shapes Sunset draws. Just add a new layer and use a tiny white brush to draw 3 sweat drops on her abs and 2 on her face, and it's gonna be a sweet cherry on top of an already sweet edit.