──── ♦ ──── hellooo there! it's been quite a while since i've shared a contest entry, hehe — but i've improved a great deal since my last piece, and i'm excited to share this one with you <33 i entered for drowned sailor — she's quite a bit darker than most of my characters, but her design is just so lovely, i simply couldn't resist entering. there will be a biography, you just have to scroll <3 i tried posing! i did have to use a reference, but i think it looks pretty good, especially for my first try at such a dynamic figure. enjoy! ──── ♦ ──── started out with a rough sketch for positioning and anatomy. used plenty of references, which is how i got the pose to be so realistic more detailed sketch, focusing on clothing and whatnot— changed color to be more ocean-y lineart! not very many big changes here, but i'm still really proud of this — it's been quite some time since i actually tried a fancy pose base colors and background change. big glowup here, but all that was really changed aside from colors was her shorts, they felt a little unrealistic hehe rendering! pretty big change here as you can see. everything is done with flat colors—just a whole lot of eyedropping, no blending involved so i'm really proud of the way it looks :0 lighting! pretty stark here but i think it looks pretty good, also beginnings of a background so that was a big change bubbles + watermark, most of the bubbles are copied so the highlights are in different places xD hope you like the entry! <33 ──── ♦ ──── name: melusine / lucie pronouns: she / her hobbies: songwriting, sailing, daydreaming about the perfect future she'll have when she reaches wherever she's aiming for next. personality: daydreamy, apt to lapse off, but determined to have a fairytale life and bitter when it doesn't succeed. backstory: she was a sailor who went on a journey to oceans similar to the ones in /the odyssey/ (blame my english class okk) but when encountering creatures similar to the sirens, no one bothered to save her and keep her from revolting, so she leapt overboard and dr-wned. now, she haunts the waters there, seeking out the forgotten, the left-behind, and bringing them to doom with her. "misery loves company. that's what they told me, once." ──── ♦ ──── art, thumbnail, and code by me on procreate, canva, and scratch respectively backstory is partly me, partly the odyssey ;) design by @wxnter_ or music is long story short by taylor swift <3 ──── ♦ ────
