Locket - From Start to Finish -

.... i should be in best right now.... i've been sick as a dog all day but i was close to fnish this that i just couldn't stop....

SO how did this all start?

Last Friday (which was going to be my last day on this film i'm working on but it looks like i'll be needed for at least one more week before receiving my pink slip) I was able to actually take my break instead of work through it and not have a crazy day.... so i watched some anime (fun fact this is why anime reviews are the most common thing i do.... i only get to read on public transit but i always manage to get at least one episode of something in before passing out after the long days at work) but as lunches are 45 mins long and anime is 24.... i had some time left but not enough time to watch another episode.... so i grabbed my moleskin and stared at a blank page...
i'm sure this is true for everyone but damn it's hard to draw when your sick... head is all fuzzy and can't even think of something interestign to draw.....

Eventually i started sketching and i managed to get this

Ah yes.... Meriel.... shall we go into fever driven story time? yes i think we shall.
I used to roleplay a lot when i was younger (i still do occasionally but with 12-16 hour work days it doesn't not leave me with any time or mental power left to have fun with characters) and because i roleplayed a lot i had a lot of characters.... however i wasn't a fan of using a character that didn't fit in with the world so i made a lot up on the spot.
Meriel was one of them, The world dealt more with angels, devils and demons AND she was kind of used as a way to make the main character of that RP not so god damn evil.
The rp eventually died (cause the main guy in question was really busy and never posted and honestly most RPs eventually die unless they manage to end which has only happened to me a handful of times) but i really like my little wrong place wrong time fallen angel so i weaved her into her own story that will probably only exist in my head.... oh well~

Maybe it's because i'm an artist even though she was an on the spot creation made simply to fill a gap in the plot i just had to know what she looked like.... and i liked EVERYONE in my universe having crazy hair (seriously 3/4 of my first batch of OCs have two tone hair and the second half all have unnatural colours... does that make them mary sue? some may argue but i think i've rounded them off enough to offset it.... i hope....)

Anyways~ Apparently people liked her design, even more so then the character whose name i use as my own online (and i know as an artist i really should put my real name out there but i'm not terribly comfortable with that idea just yet....) so i ended up drawing her lots of the years.....
then i kinda stopped.... for a long time.... i was either worried that she was too much of a sue or just unoriginal overall... either way i only draw her on occasion now but still she's one of the more fun ones..... also the only one i've made who hasn't had a major costume change.... or design change.... she's almost the exact same design that i created when i was 16.... which is pretty long ago and i suddenly feel old.... hm...

So a friend asked to see a WIP pretty much seconds after i finished colouring her.

I did do a few more tweaks but thats was pretty much her all finished.... i was gunna call it a day after this but i'm terrified of leaving pics unfinished cause i have a tendency to walk away and never finish them... and with Meriel specifically i've had a file that i was really proud of get corrupted cause there was a powerout in the middle of me saving... so yeah doubly nervous...
anyways FINAL PRODUCT!

wait.... i'm happy with i a pic i did entirely with a fever? maybe my mind will change once i get over this flu and see it outside of this feverish haze.... hmmm.
oh well i think in the end i had fun with it.... it was a little outside my comfort zone as circular compositions are not something i'm used to doing but i'm all for trying to push myself even if it means making a few terrible pictures that make me doubt my chosen path as an artist.....

But Rai she's your own characters and you forgot to draw her wings?
didn't forget.... i couldn't make it work in the composition without making it look strange so i omitted them.... i'm allowed to do that.... cause she's my character.....
side not i had way too much fun with the curly hair... i just wanted to give her hair a little more dimension.... dunno if i succeeded but that was the goal...

You can see this piece over at
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