[Image: Colored pencil illustration of Hue Azure looking serene.]
Still not totally sure about that emblem (it is one element that was there from day 1) but it’ll do for now.
Colored pencil, marker, ink, on brown card stock.
Tag: audrey
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[Image: A worksheet of 25 Essential Expressions with Audrey’s face drawn in accordingly.]
25 faces for Audrey. I’m starting to get the hang of her face, thankfully! The faces towards the bottom of the sheet are starting to loosen up and feel familiar to me, but I still have to draw her again about a thousand more times, I think.
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[Image: a sketchbook page of Audrey, a young woman of color, in various head poses.]
I’ve been thinking about Audrey quite a lot lately, and I decided I wanted to base her features off a different branch of African descent. (Before, she was loosely based on Gina Torres’s features.) I really want to see this sort of androgynous, broad, rounder face more often, and it’s pushing my drawing skills in a way that the Torres edition does not.
Most of this sketchbook page was an attempt to get the facial features looking like real life, since I have never drawn a person of color who looked exactly like this before. Then I tried to inject my personal style into the top-right and bottom-middle pictures, to mixed success.
Need more practice! And more photo references.
I’m not totally decided on what to do with her hair, either. I like the cropped-short look of these sketches, and they do fit Audrey’s personality; before, she had long curly hair like Gina, but I’m thinking her hair would be a completely different texture than before, so I don’t think she’d fuss with a lot of hair, it being the apocalypse and all.