Request: OC Refs

You know I'm always down with requests from friends, right? So long as they're not exploiting me, claiming it's their artwork, or anything else despicable, I have no problems cranking out a picture or two. In fact, if I know you, dear reader, enough and you asked, I'd probably say yes.

But anyways, a friend asked me for a picture not too long ago for her OC. All I had was a description to work off of. That's good for the artistic freedom, bad because it's always easier to look at an arm than be told how it looks like. It helps than her ghost form was pretty much a tweaked version of Miku Append (who can be thought of as Miku ver. 2).

My initial sketches of the characters:

Human form.

Ghost form.

But when I showed it to my friend, I found out that the character is supposed to be 14. Obviously, what I drew didn't resemble a 14 year old so after some convincing that I was fine with redoing it (the sketch didn't take that long to do anyways), it was back to the drawing board.

Luckily, my friend wasn't some assholey-client and I got the okay for the second sketch. And it was smooth sailing from there.

Human form on the left, and ghost form on the right.

No shading because I figured it was a ref and in refs, usually just solid colours are used. I think I only highlighted the hair, eyes, and the lips. Fine with me. Probably easiest colouring job I've done because my lineart was nice enough for once just to use the magic wand tool to do all the work for me. That and my friend gave me the hex codes for her eyes and hair.

Such a shame that a lot of detail I put into the ghost girl's outfit is lost either due to shrinking the picture to half its size after I was done (a little tip if you want to make smooth and thin lineart easily) or the grey being too dark for the lines to appear properly (since most of it was focused on the belt).


Lineart in openCanvas.
Coloured in Photoshop.