character evolution: Tara, Miranda & Seiahn

February 24th, 2009

Finally breaking in my new recycled paper sketchbook, I drew something for the first time in several weeks. I decided to take another crack at the main characters from my novel: Tara, Miranda, and Seiahn. The first time I drew all three of them together was—are you ready for it—4 years ago. I drew Tara and Miranda again in 2006, but wasn’t able to get the right look for Seiahn. He’s supposed to be a generally handsome guy, tall and dark (“hot” as described by Miranda). His face came out pretty well, but I love that I was able to get his hair the way I wanted. I always have a problem drawing the shaggy hair on guys. And then, as I was drawing, I was thinking he might look better with shorter hair, but then I remembered that there was a specific reason his hair was the longer length…*sigh*

Miranda is seems to be channeling a bit of Ramona Flowers with her look, but eh. I created her before ever hearing of Scott Pilgrim. Though, originally her look was decided more goth, less artsy.

Tara came off like I wanted. She’s shy and naive and quite a bit nerdy. I hope she’s a little more extroverted by the end of the book. Or at least a little braver than she ever thought she could be.

Seiahn is…well, he’s mysterious.

Now…to draw E’lari.

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