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For the supposed main character of my story I never really drew Simon, or Syme as he used to be known as, a lot. Which is a shame because he’s a really fun character to draw.<\/p>\n
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I had always envisioned Simon as someone with an androgynous face, one of those Chinese pretty boys. Trying to capture that beauty while also making him look Chinese was hard. I started off by making the face too blocky, jaw square, chin short, lines straight. In actuality, I should have done the opposite. Longer face, defined chin, and delicate features with rounder lines.\u00a0The drawing with the black line art on the second picture was the face I stuck with.<\/p>\n
It was good that he has a simpler-to-draw monster face I could use when designing his outfit. Simon is this dramatic guy who can be stealthy. So he gets a coat with a dramatic collar and torn, swishy ends. When he wears it, he kind of reminds me of a ghost. The ends would move beautifully along with his wild movements too. He gets a back brace that looks kind of like a corset too, to emphasize how he doesn’t care for gender norms.<\/p>\n
Here are some old sketches:<\/p>\n
I think the thing that helped me most with figuring out Simon was drawing him a lot for an OC-tober event. Here are some of my favorites:<\/p>\n For the supposed main character of my story I never really drew Simon, or Syme as he used to be known as, a lot. Which is a shame because he’s a really fun character to draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2248,"featured_media":20842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20891,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions\/20891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1504-581x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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