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.
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
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.
An Introduction
Hello, Micey here. My series Sketchbook Smashing will be my attempt to chronicle all my character designs and how they evolve through candid shots of my sketchbook and doodles. This is an introduction to the characters I draw the most and my character design goals, so it’ll be a bit longer than my usual posts.
