I keep mentioning here and there of a world-building project I've been working on for my own personal enjoyment as well as something to show for my portfolio. It's basically a remake of the senior thesis I had done a while ago, but with more of the content I wish I could have gone into the first time I had started this.
So here's one of the many characters I've been working on for a bit now. She's still got a ways to go, but this sheet is a good direction towards it. I don't exactly have a name for her yet, so for now we'll just call her Shadow Lady or SL.
Originally she looked like the person on the top here, but quite a few changes had been made, haha.
So considering that SL's magical attribute are the shadows, I wanted to give her a sort of formless, dark costume to allow her to fit better in the darkness and to represent that mysteriousness as well. She also belongs to the wilder side of the magical world, so I wanted to give her otherwise featureless self a little wildness in the tear of her cloak (as if she had been walking around in the world for many years) and in the haphazard way her clothes under the cloak was put on.
I liked the idea that when SL used her magic, she would glow from the shadows like how a flicker of the moon would light up the branches of a dark forest on particular places on her body. Her tattoos and the enchantments placed on her clothes would show that glowing etherealness, that she is not quite a normal creature of the earth as she might look from first sight. She also has several raven feathers for summoning/spell purposes on her body and I liked the idea of her having a sheer covering over her dress to give her that wispy appearance.
However, there're still kinks I need to work out (like her facial features and some more work on her clothes....) so she might not even look like this a week from now, haha.
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