Caramiad: “Victoria Elizabeth Renwick is the main character of my steam punk novel “Victoria Renwick and the Sky Pirates”. She’s young, only 16, when she begins her journey. She also happens to live in Victorian (..eh, technically Edwardian) England in 1905. She’s a day dreamer and extremely rash in her decision making, as shown by the fact that she decides to rebuild her brother’s trashed flying machine in order to save him despite the fact that she has no knowledge of mechanics or engineering. She tends to get herself into a lot of trouble.

Toward the end of the novel she’ll be wearing a more stereotypical “steam punk” outfit consisting of a blouse which still has a high neck but doesn’t have sleeves, a leather underbust corset that she wears over the blouse, a skirt which has been raggedly cut short in the front for ease of movement, fitted leather shorts that tuck into knee-high boots (beneath the skirt), leather gloves, and her same ol’ locket. Oh yeah, can’t forget the flying googles perched atop her head. Lots of leather and bronze detailing in this outfit. Not sure if I visualize her hair up or down in this outfit.”

Look! I SURVIVED THE MONTH! And finished with all 30 done! (And finished my NaNoWriMo 50k too, if you’re curious, although the story’s like a third of the way through and may never get completed properly.)

A big thank you to everybody who left character descriptions, and who commented here. And apologies to all those I couldn’t get to – it would’ve been nice to do them all, but this whole art thing’s my day job too, and there’re only so many hours. Maybe I’ll do it again next year!

BloodRoseAngel: “Ikurei is a merboy. 8D I don’t know if you like drawing fantasy species, but just in case, I thought I’d throw him in. He’s got looong messy bright auburn hair, blue eyes, and tanned skin. His tail is crimson with long spiky fins at the tip and coming down the sides from his hips, and he also has smaller fins on his back, elbows and behind his ears. Red scales are also scattered down his arms, up his neck and across his cheeks, and he has webbed fingers and claws. He has vicious scars across his chest and cheek from when his entire clan were massacred by humans when he was 13. He’s still grieving even five years later, but he also has quite a sweet personality too.”

This author has a novel cover in their profile, with a picture of this character (well, I hope it’s him!) which I referenced as well as the description.

Merboy! Whee tail!

ConundrumK: “Nagyana Vadoma – Female – This is the Baba Yaga character, and she is both good and bad. Really a Birth-Death goddess of sorts. She looks quite old, and is slightly stooped. She looks to be of Romany (gypsy) origin, with darker skin, and very black eyes. Her hair is a tangled nest of grey and white. Her hands would have a claw-like quality. She’s the fortune teller of the circus, so she would wear a toned down version of stereotypical gypsy fortune teller clothes, mixed with odd cast-offs from others in the circus and with some darker additions, like small animal skulls. “

This user left so many great characters I wanted to draw them all, but if I have one complaint about the character descriptions left in the thread, it’s that there weren’t enough people over 30. How could I not jump at the chance to draw an awesome old lady?

kimikat8: “Character: Sibyl
21 years old. Upper half (hip up) is human, lower half is crow. It’s as if you cut off a crow’s head, sized it up to human proportions, and stuck on a human torso (lovely imagery I know)
she has short black hair and gray eyes. wears a plain black bodice. small feathers grow from her cheeks and shoulders. She has a long neck and athletic build. Pale skin
she can’t fly much with her wings but can glide short distances

not sure if pic reference is ok but I’ll link it anyway in case you want to look at it“

This is actually my second attempt at drawing her. I scrapped the first one because the bird anatomy was just so off. This one, I like!

FRUITSCLiPPER: “Theresa Lachance is a ghost now, though she doesn’t have puffs of smoke she is not corpral. She died at seventeen.

Theresa is vengeful, but she’s also very, very sad. When she’s visible to others, she usually either has her fists clenched angrilly, or she is trying to pull down her skirt (she was sexually abused, as well). She is almost always crying unless she is made even angrier than usual.”

I actually went back and forth for a while over whether to do this one at all, as she’s such a dark, abused character, but in the end, the description was just too striking not to draw.

Do you know how HARD it is to make somebody look sad or angry without visible eyebrows? A lot of expression can be read with only eyes and eyebrows, but without them, man, it’s a struggle. Or maybe I just need to learn how.