Izzi, A Faraway Homecoming

Happy Friday night my people and I hope you are very cool, today I come with a drawing with a (Space) theme; it is about a character that I decided to call Izzi, A Distant Homecoming. Izzi is a young girl who was separated from her family because of an attack perpetrated on her home planet many years ago; Izzi managed to survive with the help of a kind old woman who fed and cared for her until the moment of her death, and now Izzi struggles tirelessly to return home and reunite with her parents who are also still looking for her:

PROCESS

For this drawing I decided to create the sketch in portrait style, since I wanted to add details and very specific characteristics to the face above all; I made the sketch of Izzi as if she were a young teenager of about 15 or 16 years old. I drew an expression of tenderness and naivety in her face as it would be a very young character, and when applying color I went for usual tones along with not so common tones; for the skin for example I used peach tones; for the hair a dark purple with a slight tendency to red; and for the lips contrast with a more saturated orange.

The volumizing of the skin is a process in which special attention must be paid, especially when it comes to a young character as is the case of Izzi; being a teenager I first firmly captured the strokes of the volume, and then with a brush I was blurring and blending with some force these strokes for a more youthful texture. Then I continued with the details of the face, this part is very important because the details of the face like the eyes and lips are the ones that finally give the personality and essence to any character; in this case I decided to color the eyes in light blue and the lips I darkened them a little more and gave them much more texture.

The main idea for this character was that her hair should complement her eyes, that's why I had first used a blue in her hair, but then I thought about it better and went for the darker violet-purple tones; I created basic relief in the hair with a bristle brush towards the outside. I finished Izzi's hairstyle very well and then I could concentrate better on the details of the clothing; for the clothes I decided to create a kind of dress with intertwined lines or strings, and I also painted a kind of band or bandana on the forehead to give a more spatial touch to the character.

In the center of the forehead bandana I decided to paint a kind of crystal, for this I used many marine blue tones and my main idea was that this crystal or gem had a very similar appearance to the diamond; I also added a small reddish texture to the bandana that I thought would look cooler. Finally, the only thing I needed was to complete the background of my drawing, and for this I decided to paint a kind of open and stormy scenery; with a kind of pink moon or star orbiting over the planet where Izzi is.

MATERIALS

• Sai Paint Tool Program
• Huion inspiroy h610 v2 tablet

That was all for this week, I really hope you liked my drawing and if you did, I will wait for you as always in the comments; without anything else to say, I wish you all a good weekend and I will see you next week with more drawings... See you later!