My latest attempt at humans. This is a major character who appears in Predecessor, a future project that I would like to write. It takes place about one thousand years before the events of The Rebirth Trilogy, and as you can guess, it features at least one ancestor of the characters in the trilogy. Predecessor is the code name for the book (the actual title will be different) and it will be only one book long at this point.
This character came out looking a little older than I intended, but I drew an Asian face without it looking horrible, so I'm not going to whine. I very much enjoyed the details of her wardrobe. I based a lot of it off of period dress from both China and Japan, as the character, Lei Mai, comes from a culture where this is common.
For ten years she's always just kind of been a character floating in the background of my world, and I've really wanted to develop her more. Over the past several months, I've been blessed to be able to figure out exactly what her personality and background might be. She hails from a class that is very similar to the current-day Japanese geisha. I won't say more, but I am now in the process of researching geisha so that I have a better idea of this special class. (I admire the geisha, anyway, so it's a win-win)
My darling scanner insisted on cropping this for me every time I tried to scan it, and of course I encountered Washed Out Syndrome, the bane of all scanned images. Ah well. It's a learning process.
Done in micron pen and colored pencil. As always, I own the character. Thanks for looking! :)
Very nice!
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