The Factoid Firefly: Some Concept Sketches and Drawings.

Eyyyyyy! I have some sketches, haven't had a way to post them until I got to use my mother's camera since mine has a bad battery. Okay so, I'm working on trying to develop some African characters, why I'm not exactly sure but I think it's going to lead to something in the end so for now that's all I'll say.

I'm not fully sure of color meanings as of yet for Africa so if the colors mean something odd I didn't mean it that way!

I was working hard to capture the African feel whiles not "over exaggerating" the features, I don't have a fully permanent character yet but I'm going to need more sketches in the time to come.

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First I'll do a random sketch of a semi futuristic female; nothing to do with the African characters.

Here is the sketch that started my African character "craze", it was a totally random drawing but I liked the style, she seemed quite lovely and exotic to me so I decided to try and make an actual character, to be honest I like her best out of all of the "young" characters you will see.

So here's the full-body sketch of a character and other sketches.

Here's a few more, I personally really like the female character, although her hair is short I think she has an interesting beauty to her.

Here's some sketches and I thought, maybe have a younger character, but in the end I didn't like this one so much.

Now I'm moving in to more colorful illustration-sketches.

This one is a more grandmotherly type character, she's imo obviously older but yet still had a certian beauty about her. I like this character, but attempts to recreate her failed miserably - So bad I wouldn't post it...

Colored with Prismacolor Pencils and Crayola/RoseArt Markers.

Here's some quick painting sketches:

This is totally with a Raphael portable painting set for color (except for Niji branded watercolor in white) and a micron pen for the sketchy outline.