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Diana
🕑 Added 2024-10-28 01:05:07 +0000 UTCShe was always meant to play guitar.
She's the guitarist of the WornDown Children.
She feels a lot and she's awful at hiding it, now matter how hard she tries, and she tries.
She always feels like she's waiting for something. God knows what.
Even now she's figuring out how to be herself.
When she was 15 she fell in love with a friend of hers in highschool.
A girl named Anna that a year after that would have become a mother and marry her highschool sweetheart and father of the kid. In that order.
Diana started writing songs during that time. At first they were supposed to be heard by none until she was contacted by Zara and Liliana. Two girls she had befriended at a small music school when they were younger. They were making music too.
Over time more people joined the effort and the band was complete.
Diana met music very early as, when she was born, her grandfather's wish of having at least one of his grandkids inherit his passion finally came true.
They were very close, he taught her a lot. He gave living from music a try when he was young, but raising a family made him put a long pause on that. Now she will succeed where he failed, he thinks. Or she won't. Honestly he’s just happy seeing her giving it a try.
She was born ten years after her younger brother and 15 after the oldest. So she was raised by them as much as by her parents.
She currently lives with two of her bandmates. Zara and Liliana, now Lil.
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On the picture.
Last week I mentioned that I wanted to make a sort of introduction post for my characters but I wasn't sure how to do it. Well I here's this.
The idea here is a new series of photos that, in universe, would be taken by Tak as she tags along the band while touring, capturing moments of the band where you can get a feel of who they are.
And I would use some of these as the introduction for the band members. Give a little bit of the Lore that's already available and a little bit of new one.
And I say “some” because this is an idea I've had for a while and Ideally it would go beyond the “character ones” and show some other aspects, but by tying that project to the character introduction ones I'm guaranteeing that there's gonna be at least 6 of these.
Hopefully.
To be honest, on the other hand, I'm still also considering updating the reference sheets. But If I do that, that'd be a project for next year. I have a lot on my hands for this one.
In this specific picture Tak caught Diana with her guard down and a little tired as the band get off the band and looked at the cheap motel they're gonna spend the night at. A concept I already had touched on before but even then I mentioned that there were some ideas that I had to scrap. Like the neon color of the hotel sign over Diana.
For these pictures, like here, I want to fake depth of field, blur and lense flares to make the picture feel more grounded, like real in-universe photos.
Hey guys, Check out this useless paragraph: These are inspired by the work of a photographer that I learned from on college, whose name sadly I don't remember, I was never good at taking notes, and whose work I remember well but sadly I can't describe in words well enough to look for it on Google.
So there's that.
But one of the things I do remember well is how their work contrasted against the work of most of the other photographers we studied in that class where the compositions were completely incidental and the photos had movement blur all the time.
There are two versions of the picture, one is the original and another one without the fake focal length as, even though I made the background with the idea of blurring it out so it's more about the shapes than the details, I still wanted a version with it. It kind of shows how crazy I am making a whole background and only to destroy it. Lol.
This piece was 99% done on Procreate except for a tiny retouch at the very end so I'll be posting a time laps later.
The setting for this piece is based on an avenue of Amecameca in front of a hotel I stayed at once, the parking lot of a 24 hour open drug store with a lot of signs in my town and a convenience store in Veracruz named Yepas! That's where the “Yep…” SIgn comes from actually. Another fun fact is that if you look really close in this picture you’ll notice the “San Paul” drug store logo that I made up is the same one in Ian’s plastic bag (I’m the king of world building*)
*:Nah
Comments
Morlund
Yep, the old bobble-head ref sheets may be adorable and iconic but they've still been long due for an update. :D
Juan Daniel Campos Hernandez
Actually yeah, I got the same feel when I saw the ref and the picture next to each other lol. That's on my to-do list for when I finish my comic, Next to another comic I have in mind and drawing a guitar
Morlund
Tak taking (heh) candid photos of her friends is a great way to make a new series of bandmember introductions! Tho I still hope for updated ref sheets someday, especially to show how your art style has evolved; seeing the years-old ref sheet of Diana's old bigeyed-bighead-stuck-on-a-small-body toony model right next to a modern beautifully rendered portrait demonstrates that like nothing else. :D And a rare moment of Diana with her guard down and wearily melancholy is the perfect introduction picture for her character^^ It's not surprising that she was in another unlucky situation like what happened with Lola when she was a teenager, and seeing her like this makes me even more hopeful that she won't be always lonely and waiting for something for much longer by joining her friends in finding that special someone...or two...or three... X3
Juan Daniel Campos Hernandez
Actually a coincidence. Lol I did noticed it eventually while making it and even tried other colours but it didn't work as well.
Ssemodnar sgod
Coolio 👍, AND now that I think of it... The lighting in Diana's face and her facial expression reminds me of that famous scene on Blade Runner 2049 with the big holographic girl asking Ryan Gosling "Are you feeling lonely?"! A subtle reference or gratifying coincidence ;v?
Juan Daniel Campos Hernandez
Never. Still working on it but next update will be bigger and I'm approaching it with a pincer strategy. But It'll be done soon
Ssemodnar sgod
I love this picture, and I like Diana a lot <3. I totally look forward to this new series of pictures (so it means Tak would be the band's graphic designer AND photographer?), they could be a cool in media res introduction to our favorite band... But don't forget you left the Closing Time comic hanging lol^^
