Yay! I drew something that’s not fan art. This is my unfortunate reality, because I’ve been doing so much more of the former these past few years. It’s just easier when the characters are ready-made.

I’ve been trying to get back into doing original art though. It’s hard for me to come up with concepts, but it’s usually the little things in my surroundings that stimulate my artistic muse. Last night I took a spontaneous trip to the Fairhope Pier with my older sister. Lots of people were there fishing, and I took a few photos, which I posted on tumblr.

Today, I decided to draw a guy and a girl standing on the side of the pier, the guy fishing and the girl standing next to him. I sketched it out like that, but I wasn’t feeling the look of the guy, so I decided to just draw the girl—and that she should have awesome natural hair, and I would suck it up and draw the detail in her hair texture.

I named her Marjani, which means “coral” in Swahili.