working on a ref sheet for mererid, feat. body hair women wsunday, return of the belt knife, and "drawing this outfit from a different angle made me finally figure out how all that armor attaches"

also it's genuinely really hard to figure out reasonably plausible pseudo-historical underwear

someday i will have my character designs down enough to draw something other than "figure standing in void." the loops on mererid's left vambrace are to help her shield stay strapped to her arm, since she can't hold it.

and a colored version

i still haven't decided on how old mererid is... eleyn is 24 and orphne is 26 but i want to play around with expectations of responsibilities/independence in rural vs urban societies. would you cancel me if she was 19.

her smile and optimism... gone. her hand also