I drew this as a part of an art/sketch exchange on deviantART, for *Veezibee. The woman in the drawing is Ney, one of the characters that Vee has made up, and who appears as a child in a short comic called Godhand.
This was really interesting to do, as I'd never drawn other people's characters before. I took it as a challenge to stay true to the details that Vee had already established with the kind of precision I'd expect from, say, a cover artist (I spend at least twenty minutes checking and double-checking the original comic to make sure I got the design on the hand done right, which hand it was supposed to go on, and whether it was visible even when not glowing), while also giving my own spin to the character.
Because of my anal sticking-to-the-details-of-other-people's-characters, I purposefully picked a character that Vee was still working on the design for, but that she also had a core idea for. Her sketches of adult Ney show have a unified feel, even if she's still playing around with the details, and she mentioned that she was going for a middle eastern/asian look, so I tried to use those sketches to inform this drawing.
Of course, I wasn't planning on doing this drawing on lined paper. I was going to do it proper, on a sketch pad. The problem was that I had a pile of blank lined paper sitting next to me while I was mulling ideas in my head of how I'd draw Vee, and I started doodling completely by accident. Next thing you know, I found I was a third of a way through the drawing, and it was going in a direction that I really, really liked. When that happens, there's a 90% chance that stopping and trying to replicate that on a different piece of paper will result in complete and total ruin of both drawings, so I decided to finish it.
Ugh, and now I'm all impatient again for Vee to make more comics so that I can find out what happens to Ney and her brother next. The premise of Godhand has hooked me good.
