Number 19 of 150

December 29, 2022December 24, 2022Leave a comment

A fun tie-dye shirt over sweatpants.

A boy, aged 7-9, stands with one hand held up in a gesturing position. He is wearing a black and blue tie die t-shirt, blue sweatpants, and black sneakers.

Number 18 of 150

December 27, 2022December 24, 2022Leave a comment

I gave this girl a traditional floral print on her dress. I took way longer than I should have to get the print just right, but I’m really pleased with how it turned out.

A girl, aged 7-9, stands with one hand raised in a wave. She is wearing a muumuu dress with a traditional two-toned floral print in purple and white. She's wearing white crocs. Her hair is long and worn loose.

Number 17 of 150

December 25, 2022December 25, 2022Leave a comment

One subtle change that the client made in this batch was to have me give many of the dark-eyed characters colored irises. It’s slightly faster just to color the irises and pupils both black, and honestly it isn’t that noticeable. (When you’re doing 150 characters on a tight schedule, even little time-savers add up.) But the client did notice about halfway through this batch and asked me to change it going forward. Since they didn’t have me go back and change the previous batch, in order to preserve consistency, I colored the irises of some of the dark-eyed characters brown, and some black. Later images with black characters (there are more coming up) will have brown irises, just to balance out all the black irises I used before.

But, back to today’s post. This guy’s waving, or maybe raising his hand to answer a question? I gave him a dinosaur t-shirt as an interesting detail. Not really Christmassy, I’ll admit, but that’s the one that fell on today.

A boy, aged 4-6 stands with his arm raised. He might be waving or raising his hand to answer a question. He's Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. He's wearing a shirt with a dinosaur printed on it, striped shorts, and flip-flop sandals.

Number 16 of 150

December 24, 2022Leave a comment

Woops, skipped a day. Should have posted this yesterday.

We’re moving on to the second batch of this large project. This batch contains 15 different Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. They’re all in warm-weather clothing.

This one is a girl, aged 4-6. She looks happy, doesn’t she?

A girl aged 4-6 is standing with her arms crossed over her chest. She is grinning and laughing. She is either Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. She has short, chin-length black hair with bangs. She's wearing a turquoise t-shirt, jean shorts, and striped, pink sandals.

Number 11 of 150

December 13, 2022December 2, 2022Leave a comment

One last aged 10-12 for this batch. Not really sure if I like putting them in boots and tall socks with shorts.

A black child aged 10-12 standing with both hands held up, as if cupping something unseen in their palms. They're wearing a t-shirt, zip-up hoodie with stripes, jean shorts, boots, and tall socks. Their hair is in skinny dreadlocks.

Number 10 of 150

December 11, 2022December 2, 2022Leave a comment

I love his freckles! And his hair!

A light-skinned black boy aged 10-12 standing with his hand on his hip. He has freckles and an afro. He's wearing a white T-shirt with 3 green and orange stripes across the chest. He has green cargo shorts and sneakers.

Number 9 of 150

December 9, 2022December 2, 2022Leave a comment

This is the first of three age 9-12 in this batch. I like the pleated skirt on her dress. I had a little trouble getting the angle right on her glasses.

Black girl aged 10-12 stands with one hand raised, palm up, as if gesturing. She is wearing glasses, a blue jumper with a pleated skirt, white blouse, and sneakers. Her hair is in long twist braids.

Number 8 of 150

December 7, 2022December 6, 2022Leave a comment

Here’s the last 7-9 year old for this batch. They’re in a gender-neutral outfit and posed in a side view. The original version of this one had them turned away from the viewer, 3/4 view from the back, but the client wanted to see more of their face.