Sabriel...ish

Sabriel again. Sort of. Couldn't really get the key pattern into her surcoat and in the end I just wanted it done. I have this love/hate thing with graphite, since I like using it but it always gets frustrating and never scans particularly well. And I have never yet been able to colour it in a way that doesn't look awful. Back to watercolour and digital for now, I think. Won't get another illu of her done in time for school, but I lav those books so I'll probably give it a few more goes later as well. 

   

Sabriel character design

Variations of the character design for Sabriel, the main character from the book Sabriel by Garth Nix, the first in the Old Kingdom series. They are pretty much my favourite books, so I chose to do some work involving them for the big self-initiated uni project thing. Mostly just taking different looks at her surcoat here. The keys in the sucoat pattern could probably do with being spaced out a little more, but it's just a shorthand for the pattern really and they need to be big enough to be seen when printed.

(Also I guess this doesn't look particularly female, but at the same, cover a gal in layers of clothing and armour and her figure will sort of disappear. I am not of the furkini or boob plate school of armouring when it comes to women.)