My girl’s finished! I promised my dnd group I’d finish her on break and I did. She looks so cheeky!
Author: Micey
J. Shen or "Micey" is a Senior 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
Updates on Cyrene
Figured it was about time for someone else to shine. This is Cyrene, I wanted to give her this popular mean girl vibe but that made choosing clothes that fit her and her interest in tattooing hard. I revamped her face to be thinner, hair shorter, clothes preppier, very Chilling Adventures of Sabrina even though I haven’t seen the show. Not sure about the dots on top of her eyebrows; I keep forgetting to add them.
Taya’s Tentative Makeover
I’m pretty happy with her new outfit; I wanted to get that dark academia/queercoded villain atmosphere. Cyrene and a few others are here too, I should really focus on them more.
Taya Goes to the Hairdresser continued
Decided to do a more drastic redesign of Taya, I want her to look more villainous/suspicious. And her disheveled look makes sense – she’s a student juggling a lot of stuff!
Taya Goes to the Hairdresser
Hello, Micey here. I experimented with Taya’s hairstyle over this past week. I think I’ll choose the side bun as her new hairstyle. It’s more fun to draw than her current short hair. It has more dramatic potential too. I tried to make her new silhoulette different from my other characters.
I normally don’t do such a dramatic transformation, but I recently got highlights in my hair so perhaps it was on my mind.
