Author: Micey

J. Shen or "Micey" is a Junior at Umich. She loves character design and telling stories and dabbles in making her own comics. Sketchbook Smashing is an attempt to chronicle her process in designing characters. From first concepts, hairstyle and outfit changes, or even complete shifts in design. She also hopes to map out how her own art style changes throughout the year. Her website is https://wallmouseart.weebly.com Her art Tumblr is https://wallmouse.tumblr.com

Io the Snake Person

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This is Io, one of Cyrene’s backstory characters. She’s been tagging along with the party for a while. She’s a yuan-ti warlock who got possessed by her sword/patron, which we got rid of.

I wanted to show her accountant job as well as her managerial position at Cyrene’s old workplace, so she gets a dress shirt and tie. As well as how she’s not really the best fit for the job desire-wise, so I made her clothing a bit mismatched for her occupation. I added her coat to show her allegiance to Cyrene, who has a similar coat.

Kortney with a K

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Behold! Yet another dnd character! This one’s my genie warlock’s patron. She’s a Djinni, which means she’s an air genie. Her name is Kortney.

My warlock wants to be a rockstar, so I made Kortney this aged/retired rocker. I wanted to make her regal and punk, like rock royalty. Simple, elegant clothing and this stormcloud cape. It matches her mood and I hope I showed that. Also I gave her this glam, 1930s style hairstyle.

More Taya

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I modified Taya’s design again for a bit. I made her coat oversized and gave her bad posture. I changed her collar a bit too. I think it shows off her personality more. She definitely has books sewn into that coat. She gets mad when one of those books gets stabbed instead of her.

Cyrene Update

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Modified Cyrene a bit. I change how her hair frames her face. I made her tattoo artist apron into one of those full body aprons too. All the more to store ink with. She looks more disarming this way.

I haven’t been doing a lot of development stuff this week. Which is odd because I got two dnd one-shots sprung at me for spring break. I had fun making my new PCs but something awesome came up during my last session that I had to draw.