Well I dunno. It just looked so much nice without them. I mean, the outline was made of just a 1 pixel wide black line but when looking at it after having seen how it looked without lines, it seemed kind of distracting.It especially helped bring out the smaller details such as the gems on the staff.
The only thing is, if you want to remove the lines you need to be more conscious of the shading on objects, folds, etc. otherwise it'll look flat, since the outline isn't there to show you where these things are.
If that makes any sense... >.> But believe me when I say the shawl looks better this way.
Yes, the hair. *sigh* Believe me, i'm starting to get fed up of it as well. I redid this one 3 times.
But then I can't expect much for something that only uses the smudge tool. The good news, however, is that I may have finally found something that'll fit nicely with how I colour the rest of my stuff, so long as I can pull it off.
Not sure when I can test it out properly though. My next piece is going to be a character with their hair tied back and following that, Flynn with his short spiky hair so trying on long, straighter hair will have to wait.. I'll need to give it a go and see, but anythign should be better than what I do now.
Just have patience and I'll eventually come up with the goods.