Author notes

Many faces of a hero: Mia(2).

Dark Pascual

on Jan. 6, 2011

So, final stages of the Mia character.

First (actually, fourth) model. Done just to see how she would look with black short hair, think that looks cool, but I liked the long hair better. However, by this step she already had a more athletic build since I decided to make her able to physically fight.

At that moment I was satisfied with her characterization, so I focused on her appearance.

5th model, already with her current hair style, but with the "multicolor mess" that was mentioned at Chapter 6. Actually, the decision of make her redhair was made the day before she will fully appear for the first time (last page of Chapter 1). During the last hour before the final render I tried perhaps 5 or 6 color combinations and almost settle for pink (I think I had a thing for pink hair, don't know) when I tried the intense red color and thought it looked great.

So, this was the long way to have the looks and personality of this character. While almost all the others had at least one alternative look, no other character took me so long to define. Probably because, unlike Cyrus, all the design stages for Mia where done on Poser since the start, while the others where hand-drawn first…

OK, that's it for the week, enjoy the weekend and CYA on Monday with Chapter 8.

CYA!!!