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It’s been almost a year since I drew Hazel last, so I wanted to check in on her again. For a background, I decided to have her in the library where she’s going for her graduate degree in history, with a specialization in magical artifacts.

One thing I like to do with the characters I draw is to think of how they might have changed over the course of time since I last drew them, and although there are story reasons for Hazel to keep her hair shorter (more specifically, too short to be long, too long to be short), clearly she’s opted not to heed that for now. And since she was bucking my plans in that regard, I figured we’d might as well see how she’d look with her trademark curls straightened out, too… and so here we are. I feel like it gives her a completely different sense of personality (more straight-laced, I think... very pretty in its own right, but maybe a little less fun). What do you think?

Any comments, critiques, or tips are welcome and appreciated, but I’d be especially interested in hearing any thoughts you have on the background. Have any tricks you use to get believable but low effort backgrounds? Please share!

Thanks for taking a look!

Hazel's previous pieces:

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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.

Description

It’s been almost a year since I drew Hazel last, so I wanted to check in on her again. For a background, I decided to have her in the library where she’s going for her graduate degree in history, with a specialization in magical artifacts.

One thing I like to do with the characters I draw is to think of how they might have changed over the course of time since I last drew them, and although there are story reasons for Hazel to keep her hair shorter (more specifically, too short to be long, too long to be short), clearly she’s opted not to heed that for now. And since she was bucking my plans in that regard, I figured we’d might as well see how she’d look with her trademark curls straightened out, too… and so here we are. I feel like it gives her a completely different sense of personality (more straight-laced, I think... very pretty in its own right, but maybe a little less fun). What do you think?

Any comments, critiques, or tips are welcome and appreciated, but I’d be especially interested in hearing any thoughts you have on the background. Have any tricks you use to get believable but low effort backgrounds? Please share!

Thanks for taking a look!

Hazel's previous pieces:

____________________________________________

Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.