Erandir: “Bjorn Östergaard– Six feet tall, or more. He has a near-permanent glare on his face, but he’s not angry or mean it’s just that his glasses still aren’t quite the right prescription and he’s trying to see clearly, it just always comes off as a glare and frightens a lot of people. He has really short blond hair, wears wire-rimmed glasses and has aquamarine eyes. I’d call his features chiseled, high cheekbones and a square jaw; he’s actually quite handsome if you get past how terrifying his expression can be. He’s a mechanic, so is often covered in grease or oil or something else. His clothing is always whatever is sturdiest, usually jeans and an old button down shirt with the sleeves rolled up.”

Maybe a little too clean looking? I dunno.

okaysparky: “Jasiel: Jas is an angel. Not the It’s A Wonderful Life kind of angel, but the full on righteous fury, flaming sword of justice kind of angel.

He has huge white wings that are this sort of shape – In the scene he’s appeared in so far, they’re soaked in blood and there’s blood dripping off the ends of them onto my (rather disgruntled) main character’s kitchen floor. He also has blood on his hands and shirt sleeves, and maybe splattered onto his shirt as well.”

Catching up on posts after a cottage weekend! (I am super Canadian.) Man, being cut off from the internet, even for a couple of days, is so very, very strange.

Cadry: “Dr. Richard Ackerley Stratton

Facial type: He’s not a terribly handsome man. His nose is too big, his cheeks a bit too razor like, his chin is always raised in arrogance and more than half the time the man has a brow lifted up in a mocking tilt. His lips are a bit too thin and almost always pulled into a scowl. The man just screams ‘I know better than you. I’m smarter. You are a fool.”

(Rest of the description can be found Cadry’s post – I hate to cut it short, but this blog format tends to look goofy with large swathes of text.)

This is some unholy alliance of pencil, watercolour, and Photoshop that always seems to come about when I can’t really figure out how I want to go about an image. Ah well.

May be radio silence for a couple of days, as I’ll be out in the boonies and away from the internet. The good news is that means a big old dump post when I return.

TheGreekParvula: “Dannae is a brand-new character of mine, an elf from a sort of D&D-ish fantasy/medieval setting. She’s a court jester, but she does not wear the stupid hat. She does, however, wear one of those fancy masquerade-type masks (ala one of these things – but not necessarily that one in particular, just that general sort of style). It’s to keep people from guessing that she’s the illegitimate daughter of the lord of the castle – which she’s not actually, but she sort of is, and more importantly she looks like she is, and there are those who think that she is, and she wants them to keep thinking that and everyone else to keep their noses out to begin with. It’s complicated. Layers of trickery wrapped up in deceit, etc, etc.

Anyway, moving on – amber eyes, long blonde hair. I’m not really sure whether she wears it up or down, so you can leave that to artist’s choice. She’s a tumbler and a knife-dancer, so she’s usually wearing practical but festive clothing, and has knives just about everywhere on her person that she can reach – most of them have bright ribbons tied to the pommel or something like that. She’s unusually tall, even for an elf – I think about 6′7″, though I don’t have her info right in front of me, and 155lb. Very mischievous, cheerfully sarcastic, chaotic kind of personality.”

Spent way, way longer on this than I meant to, and than I really should for a daily. Meant to do two today and catch up, but instead I was hypnotized by flowy ribbons.

Okay, okay, one more of my own characters, but only through necessity – I posted the thread later than I meant to, and didn’t have time to wait for replies before doing a drawing. Now there’re a few responses, other peoples’ characters will start showing up here tomorrow. Promise!

So here’s my protagonist for this year, Lizzie Brightman. For the first time, I’m writing a novel with a returning character – Lizzie first showed up in a short story I wrote a couple of years back for a school thing, and now here she is again, looking awesome as ever. Lizzie’s a PI who secretly, desperately wishes she was a real film noir detective, a proper Sam Spade, but is smart enough to know that that’s not how the world works, especially these days. Also, she tends to have trouble with ghosts. (At the time of her creation, I had no idea that “paranormal PI” was a full-on genre. The more you know.)