Ora isn't finished yet, but it's time for a break and I'm too excited about her not to talk about her. I was iffy on the yellow but I'm glad I went with it, she looks like a sunset. Tae/Tay/Te's color scheme is based on a cloudy the sunrise because they are meant to be foils.
Ora is selfish, charming and will use her beauty, charisma and charms to get what she wants from people. She represents survival, and joy during hardship. Unlike the other two options, she doesn't have a powerful monster form and she is not dangerous because of her abilities. She has the power to hold attention. If she wants someone to look at her, they physically cannot turn away (or move.) That means, in order to survive the quarantine zone without being exploited, she has to rely on her intellect and be more ruthless than most. That being said, she is still capable of kindness and will look out for others as long as it doesn't jeopardize her money, or safety to do so.
A mesmerizing, neon-inspired illustration of a cat with glowing eyes, surrounded by cosmic and floral patterns that evoke a sense of dreamli
A mesmerizing, neon-inspired illustration of a cat with glowing eyes, surrounded by cosmic and floral patterns that evoke a sense of dreamlike wonder and cosmic energy.
The goal is to make each fictional ethnic group easily identifiable without giving them a color scheme or assigning physical features to them.
Notes on Freeform locs
(based on things I had to add or change to make them look right)
Starter(left) vs Junior (right)
At the 1st stage of locs, coils intertwine forming the starter locs (or the closest thing freeforms have to them.) They are weightless, very soft and will continue to form indefinitely wherever breakage happens
When the loc begins to mature it will become more condensed, heavier, and will begin to hang down instead of standing up. The speed this happens in depends on the hair type
Personality
As the locs grow, some may "marry" or become the same loc. This will cause a thick loc at the base with "fringes" on the end. These fringes will eventually break off of a thick loc and leave a more uniformly shaped loc. This can take up to a decade.
A smaller loc may marry a larger loc because it is too thin and fragile, especially if it has a thicker end. In that case the thinner loc may disappear completely into it's neighbor and the thick part will remain separate, creating a "lobster claw" or a tiny loc sticking out of the side of a larger one. With freeforms, this is common and can appear anywhere down the shaft of the loc rather than just near the ends (as is the case with manicured locs.)
A lot of people have a favorite loc. Sometimes they grab, feel or squeeze the loc so much that they change the shape of the loc. Some people create thumbprints, like the loc above on the right , a flat squished area created by rubbing up and down the loc. Others make thin spots in the loc but rubbing left and right.
Flat locs
Are dense in the center and have a thick round base just before they reach unlocd newgrowth.
They're caused by styling wearing ponytails and headbands while freeforming. Once they're flat, they'll grow out that way on their own.
If you can draw a ribbon, you can draw a flat loc. They are just a bit stiffer though.
The ends can either be rounded or flat
Flat ends:
Usually happen when fringes break off. This sometimes leaves a coil, or a few coils where the tips broke off
Fun fact: Everyone in my immediate family besides my youngest brother has had freeforms at least once.
Making a guide so I can stop wasting so much time staring at my Pinterest boards before I try to design these characters.
I have a long way to go.
Also, I haven't forgotten about Teni and Sweet Cinnamon
I realized that being comfortable writing smut doesn't mean you're comfortable drawing porn, so things are going to have to change a bit. The sex is what made this story so horrific so I'm a bit disappointed. (That might just be a personal fear of mine as someone who dealt with hypersexuality but - I don't feel like writing this essay. Long story short, it's still coming. It won't be good but at this point I just want to finish something.)
Anyways, I drew this Black couple jumping the broom in pastel wedding dresses. Enjoy.
I haven't heard "Black girls don't get married in white" "Peach wedding dress" since I was small which is a good thing, but I kinda miss all the ways Black Americans were different. Plus, I found it all the women in my mom's side of the family except her (bc she was pregnant and too tired to fight for it) married in pastel dresses instead of white bc white =/= purity, easter Sunday colors do (among other things) and I think that's cool.
I wish I got to see more Black pastel brides. My only peach dress wedding happened when I was so young i can just barely remember it, and there's only one photo of my gmas and great aunts wedding. At least I can draw some, though.
