Neophile Character Update - Laila

Hello everyone!

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So, I've spent the last few days coming up with character names, and more and more ideas for my webcomic Neophile. I showed the cover art and a preview of the main character in my last post. At that time, I didn't even know what I was going to name the main charcter, but today I managed to name her entire family and write a bunch of details down about them. I'll share some of the details, but no big spoilers :p

I decided to name the main character Freya, and there are a couple reasons behind it, but I'll get to that when I share her character sheet.

Today, I want to introduce Freya's little sister, Laila.

I had a lot of fun drawing her, and went all out with the color choices at first. I wanted her to be a colorful and expressive character.

No matter what gradients I used, or how I colored her clothes, I just wasn't happy. I decided "why not play around with the patterns?" and patterns were exactly what I needed for her character!

The background was actually a fully 3D room. It took some practice to get used to interacting with it, but I'm happy with the results. You can place your character wherever you want in it.

Although the comic takes place in a futuristic world, I thought a modern apartment setting was fine for her background, because she is into older styles. She likes to keep her surroundings fairly simple.

I hope you liked this sort of character introduction, and I don't think it spoils too much. There will be more of these in the coming weeks, so you can look forward to some new faces!

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