Character Design #25: Sarah

in #drawing7 years ago

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Drawn this afternoon straight to ink.

This week I've been sharing designs for the main characters of my book "Fading".

Sarah here is the first character we meet in "Fading". She's a swamp trawler, searching for crustaceans to bring back and sell in the Southington marketplace. And it's her chance encounter with a wayward ghost that sets the whole story in motion.

Sarah began in earlier drafts as a random, unnamed background character. But the more I thought about her, the more important she became. Her part of the story is a counterpoint to what's going on with our central characters, Tom and Hades. But I don't want to share too much more...

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do you draw everything in paper first?

Well, everything I've posted here so far has been drawn straight into my sketchbook. I draw digitally too sometimes. For my book, I'm planning to draw on paper, scan the pages, and color digitally -- a recent change from my original plan to do it completely digitally. I think my lines have more character when I draw on paper.

It will have a more stylish finish that way. :D

This one, while still very much in the vein of Steven Universe, actually reminds me a bit of Dr. Suess

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