This will be a companion piece to the Bust of Siendes I did a few weeks ago. I plan to use both of them on Traces of Chaos‘ castpage.
This particular sketch is actually the fifth iteration1 of this portrait, and I propably need one more in order to fix her cheekbones.
I enjoy putting so much work into a simple lineart once in a while – it’s the later iterations that make a sketch come alive, because then I have fussed out the basics and can push the details. And it’s always those tiny, hard to see details which pull an image together. It costs alot of times though, which means I can’t do that many iterations on a comic page itself.
Footnotes:
- I don’t think that’s proper artist-speak, but it helps me thinking and planning my workflow. For me the first iteration is the prelimary sketches, after I found one I like I do the raw-sektch, which gets traced and fixed over and over again. Usually I have around three or four iterations. ↩
Looks like something has either surprised Chally or has caught her undivided attention. Very lovely sketch of her,
Thank you. :)
She’s still a pain in the arse to draw, but I guess that’s because I’m not used to her new-ish, rather detailed design yet.