WIP: Lanavi Winter's winter 2011

So this time of year always reminds me of my most beloved original character. Her name, Lanavi Winter. Obviously by her name was inspired by this season which is my favorite season. Now I didn't really feel like doing a festive art piece to celebrate Christmas and well this is my second time passing on the tradition. Instead I really want to make a piece where Solstice is outdoors where it's snowing and its night and maybe put a hint of Christmas. The Christmas in the piece is going to be super subtle I'd rather express the season more than anything.

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 There isn't much here right now. Lanavi is going to have longer hair to make look more elegant I guess and well I don't have a lot of long haired characters.

 Here is the final sketch. I decided to not only to change Lanavi's hair style but to also redesign her outfit. I gave her one of my favorite kinds of coats while adding a bit of my flare to it. (i.e. the wrapping ribbon like things which are button on. I guess if they needed a practical purpose they have different notches so you can tighten the sleeves.) I still thinking if I should keep the scarf in her regular design. I love drawing scarfs. I just enjoy make them seem to come to life and thus their motion is a tad over exaggerated. Again I always love drawing hands and all sorts of positions and such. She does wear winter clothing in the story she is apart of because she lives in very northern like area of the world where it is normally snowing and such. Each of my characters in this story have two outfits one for the cold and one for the warmth. Lanavi's outfit for the warmth would be under her coat. I just haven't figured out what exactly. 

This blog post will be updated as the piece progresses so yeah.

Ciao~