Elly, in essence, is the very manifestation of perfection in a woman: she possesses beauty, power, intelligence, and is philanthropic at heart. One line in particular stands out from the game whenever I call it to mind--the one seen above, which is spoken by Krelian--and so I decided to include it, even though I botched a number of features on her head (one of the eyes is far too small and at the wrong angle, the nose could be a bit shorter, I was far too indolent to fix the smears on the hair--you get the idea). But I felt that it didn't serve to prick myself over errors all the time; practice is, after all, what leads to better and more consistent pieces.

I kept the style of the face a little simplistic because I didn't want to make the image too realistic--given the anime-styled look of the character designs, I felt that it would be sacrilege to spoil Elly's original beauty with the real world's conception of a beautiful woman. In addition, a problem I encountered while working on this was deciding whether or not Elly ever wore earrings in the game (take a close look at their design to see what I think of the game's puerile stabs at religion)--it's been far too long since I've actually picked it up to play. But, in my opinion, earrings are the type of things that can multiply a woman's image twofold, so I opted to make them as large and glitzy as possible.