Hi!!!! the day has come where I throw my pillars of reality fanart into the void :]
anyway, these are my Mari and Alain designs based on what I think would be cool (and also the vibes that I get from the books)
i wanted Mari to have some interesting facial features so she's actually fun to draw, so I gave her downturned eyes, a nose bump (what is the technical term there? please send help), and a lil bit of a cleft chin. personally I think my design for her is gorgeous and I'm a bit in love w her now. i didn't want to fall into the typical YA character with stereotypically attractive features, and I think I kinda succeeded?
for Alain, I made sure to include his scars and his,, good jawbone,?? (which is in fact the only physical description of him in the whole series that I can remember) to be fr w y'all I just made him look like how I wish I looked :/ so that's why he looks the way he does
anyway!! more to come in a few days, I'm working of some fullbody sketches of them currently >:)