Nightside - Shotgun Suzie

She considered me for a moment, with her scarred face and her single cold blue eye and her unyielding mouth. I didn't think she even knew that she was cradling her shotgun to her chest, like a child, or a lover. When she finally spoke, her voice was as cold as ever. "My new face doesn't bother you? I never cared about being pretty, but... I know what I must look like. The outside finally matches the inside."

"You said it yourself, Suzie," I said, as lightly as I could. "We monsters have to stick together."

-"Paths Not Taken," Simon R. Green

I started this months ago, forgot about it, and stumbled across it tonight. A couple of finishing touches and here it is! I'm mostly happy with it, except that the hair looks weird. I don't know if it's actually too high in the back or if it's the asymmetry of the burned part that makes it look like that, but it looks weird.

Done completely in Photoshop CS4.