Daylight savings time has me exhausted as usual, but I’m somehow reminded that I need to post some stuff out of my sketchbooks again (some of which I’ve neglected to post in a while… whoops). Mix of the traditional sketchbook and the Supernote this time!
I saw a photo of a couple of young Italian girls in identical dresses, and I thought that dress would look adorable on Chiara.
Reference Photo from Slim Aarons – La Dolce Vita by Christopher Sweet
Lately I’ve been finding a lot of comfort in drawing Jonathan. He’s an OC who’s been with me since middle school, and while his backstory has changed a LOT since then (he used to be a magical writer with depression… lol), I keep returning to drawing him and trying to figure out how to weave him into a story. I think with La Principessa, I finally found a home for him that makes sense.
“Signora Stassi, when the hell did we let an Englishman into my home?”
This is a scene from Chapter 2 of La Principessa, but I couldn’t wait to get around to actually drawing the comic pages, I wanted to draw it nowwww
I decided to design a different minor character from La Principessa, one who DOES show up more. The design below is the ‘final’ design of the head of staff, Stassi Cola (and let’s be honest, there is no such thing as a final design in a solo comic creator’s comic), but how I got here was a bit different than the main characters.
Mamma Perla is the very first minor character introduced in La Principessa. Even though she only shows up for one chapter, she is somewhat referenced through the rest of Act 1, so I felt it was important to design her, especially since my attention is moving towards thumbnailing and rewriting.
I imagined her to be a religious woman, but she is not above petty gossip.
This was a fake comic panel for La Principessa where I was trying to figure out the general direction of what I want my comic to ‘look’ like. I know I wanted something colorful but easy to draw, and this is a close approximation to what I wanted. The other failed tests below the line!
An older drawing of Marcello, the antagonist of La Principessa. He’s a little too villainous here, but I still like this drawing.
