[ID: A head only illustration of a fat brown skin Black woman with brown eyes and pulled back afro-textured pink hair. She is wearing large gold hoops. The background is pale yellow with swirling lines that are pink, white, yellow, and light blue. The subject is outlined in bright blue and then a brown cross pattern behind that. In the bottom right corner is my signature and the date 3/6/2024 in blue outlined pink. (End ID).]

Slight style experiment on a whim

I haven’t been doing much creative work lately outside of things for my classes

[ID: A full body colored sketch of my character Kren that uses a limited palette of pink and gold. Kren is a fat dark skin Black man/woman with shoulder length gold cornrows and gold eyes. Her outfit (all pink) is a cropped sleeved top with holes at the shoulders and loose pants, both being tucked into gold coil belts/arm and leg cuffs. He also has gold facepaint that circle three moles at his eyes. The background is white. Gold handwritten text is circling her, reading her name (Kren Vahlo), with dots at the ending letters resembling his moles. In the top left corner is the date 12/17/2023 and in the bottom right is my signature - both in gold. (End ID).]

The little seen occasion of posting a sketch onto here

[ID: A half body illustration of my character Pina, a brown skin Black woman with pulled back black locs. She’s wearing gold loc cuffs in her hair, kónta d’odju, a jean jacket, and a gray shirt. In the illustration she is holding a knife out from her neck, and she has a cautious expression.

The background is a forest in the dark of night with minimal moonlight. Written in transparently in the top left corner is the date 11/17/2023 and my signature. (End ID).]

watch out

[ID: A portrait illustration of a fat brown skin Black person with brown eyes and shoulder length curly green hair. They are wearing a gold hoop earring. The lineart is purple with a lighter purple haze. The background is solid purple. The subject is outlined with a light overlay. In the top right corner is the date 4/8/2024 and my signature. (End ID).]

Just a practice piece

[ID: A fullbody illustration of my character Natasha, a brown skin Black woman with shoulder length straight black hair. She’s wearing a white shirt, dark blue pencil skirt, and pink headband. In the illustration she is holding her phone to her ear with her shoulder while writing on a clipboard, and she has an annoyed expression.

The background is a photo of wall tiles overlapping, with a close up of Natasha’s face overlayed, and a pink overlay of her as her shadow. In the top right is an overlayed pink text box that reads “what’s wrong with you people.”Written in transparently in the top left corner is the date 11/5/2023 and my signature. (End ID).]

Queen of Haters

[ID: A digital portrait painting of a dark skin Black woman with shaved black hair. The subject has a neutral expression. The background is a beige gradient. The date 9/1/2023 and my signature are in the top left corner. (End ID).]

Another painting practice

[ID: Two versions of a headshot illustration of my character Jabari, a dark skin Black man/woman with shoulder length afro-textured blue hair with a fade. In the first version his hair is styled in a frohawk and in the second version his hair is out and down. Written in the bottom left corner are #1 in Image 1 and #2 in Image 2. The background is an off-gray blue. The date 8/31/2023 and my signature are written in the top left corner. (End ID).]

Hairstyle test drawings! I decided I didn’t like his initial hairstyle - I considered polling about it but I’ve decided that I’m just goin wit the frohawk 👍🏽

[ID: A digital headshot painting of a dark skin Black woman with low cut dirty blonde hair. The subject has a neutral expression. The background is a beige gradient. My signature and the date 8/3/2023 are in the top left corner. (End ID).]

Facial Structure/Painting Practice

[ID: A fullbody illustration of my character Saint, a dark skin Black girl with black twist braids. She has scars on her cheek and over her evebrow. Saint is wearing a large green jacket, black pants, gray and green laced boots, gray visor goggles with digital information displayed on the shades, a black harness with gold buckles, and black gloves with silver and gold metal parts with the fingertips sparking with electricity. She is outlined in white. In the top right corner is an older reference image of Saint with a similar outfit, having minor differences with the jacket, gloves, and goggles. The background is a desaturated pale green. Written in the top left corner is the date 10/12/2023 and my signature. (End ID).]

Working on a new piece with Saint and so I did a minor redesign of her outfit

[ID: A black and white semi-abstract illustration of a partially transparent solid figure - a Black woman - with her arms going inwards. The subject is drawn in black, with a white outline around her. The figure is depicted using geometric shapes and thin lines, which is the aspect that serves as the abstraction. The background is an assortment of sketchy lines and overlayed geometric patterns in varying shades of gray/black. In the top left corner is the date 7/9/2023 and my signature written transparently. (End ID).]

[ID: A reference page with an upper body and full body sketch of my character Charity, a fat dark skin Black woman with close cut black hair. In the upper body sketch she is wearing a cropped black tank top, and in the full body sketch she is wearing a long sleeved purple mesh top with a black bralette, a black skirt, and black heeled shoes. In both sketches she wears dark makeup. In the full body sketch Charity has her arms up in front of her in excitement, and one of her legs is also bent up.

On the top left side of the page is the upper body sketch and an eye shape close up, and in the bottom left is color swatches for Charity’s skin and eyes. Ón the top right is written “Charity Abbe”, and below is the full body. Next to that is “Side Character For Traced” written sideways. All text is in purple, and the background is a pale purple with a white and purple-gray border. In the bottom left corner is the date 8/13/2023 and my signature. (End ID).]

More secondary character work 👍🏽

[ID: A reference page of my character Pina, an athletic-built brown skin Black woman with brown eyes and shoulder length pulled back black locs. The page consists of a fullbody piece, a portrait (within a box), and 6 expression headshots, as well as a character item box and character information box.

In the fullbody piece, Pina is holding a baseball bat in front of her at her side. She is wearing a jean jacket, a gray shirt, and jeans. In the portrait, her hair is down and she is wearing a darker gray tank. The expression headshots are in this order from left to right, top to bottom: Neutral, Questioning, Angered, Shocked, Slight Amusement, and Uncertain.

The items in the item box are: a red backpack, the baseball bat, a blue-handled knife, and a kónta d’odju on a gold chain. In the info box reads: “Tereza DePina (Pina) / She/Her | 23 | 5’9 | AfAm + Kriolla.” In a smaller box within the box is three bullets reading: “Straightforward, Observant, Awkward.”

Written sideways to the right is “Traced in Thickets” The background is a pale blue with a paler border. The boxes are darker blue with a very dark blue border. In the top left corner is my signature and rhetorical date 4/11/2024. (End ID).]

My favorite OC is back say hello 👋🏽

Total time was over 12 1/2 hours lmao

[ID: An illustration of my characters Racquel and Mériga. In the illustration, Racquel is sitting on the floor with a controller in her hands while Mériga lies next to her. Racquel has a concentrated look and Mériga has a neutral expression.

Both characters are thin brown skin Black people. Racquel has shoulder length black braids and she’s wearing a white long sleeved shirt, gray boxer shorts, tall socks, and an orange cap. Mériga has brown freeform locs and he’s wearing a gray sweatshirt and darker gray pants.

The background of the illustration is a bedroom in the dark. In the room behind the characters is a bed with pale sheets, and a bedside table with devices on it. There’s an round orange carpet on the floor, and further back in the room is a trash bin and fan to the right and an animal food bowl and food next to it to the left. At the front of the room is a light illuminating the characters and objects. Written in the bottom right corner of the illustration is my signature and the date 1/20/2024. (End ID).]

First finished full illustration of the year - something taken from a sketch page I’m working on still

[ID: A slightly stylized portrait illustration of a thin Black woman made of silver with chain links for (long) hair, wearing a black shirt. The stylization is derived from the subject’s large eyes. The lineart is blue with a red haze. The background is a geometric abstract blue pattern that matches the hue of the woman. The subject is outlined with white and blue, as well as there being an overlayed impression behind her. In the top left corner is the date 5/14/2024 and my signature. (End ID).]

I wasn’t able to draw for like 2 weeks but now I can again, so here’s this as an in between as I get back to working on my main projects 👍🏽

[ID: A full body illustration of my character Anase, a fat dark skin Black woman with shoulder length pulled back black/blonde hair and red eyes. She is wearing a sleeved red top with a faux corset bottom and gray pants. In the illustration, she is kneeling down on the ground in a patch of dirt, surrounded by a forest in the dark, and she has an annoyed expression. Her eyes are glowing, and at a spot in the dirt where she has her hand placed, the ground is also glowing red. Written in transparently in the top left corner is the date 3/23/2024 and my signature. (End ID).]

Wasn’t planning on getting down the dirt today 🤷🏽‍♀️

[ID: A digitally painted portrait illustration of my character Pina, a brown skin Black woman with brown eyes and shoulder length pulled back black locs. She has a neutral expression. The background is a pale blue gradient. My signature and the date 8/10/2023 are in the top left corner. The first version of the illustration (Image 1) has a posterization effect - which makes it have a grainier look, and the second version (Image 2) does not have this effect. (End ID).]

More painting practice but rather than a reference subject I use my own character