I made some new “masthead” art for this blog. Hopefully it looks somewhat SF-ish. The two featured characters are from a story that’s on the back burner right now.
Also, new character art! My leading lady from Sweet Heart Catalyst, Voula. I’m so pleased with how this pic came out. It really looks like my idea of her: striking, and tough. In my story, she’s the obstacle character, foil, coworker and “love interest” to my leading man who is 20 years her junior.
If she resembles Melina Kanakaredes somewhat, that is not entirely a coincidence, as I used a very beautiful pic of MK as inspiration. I’m not that great at drawing so I almost always have to use some kind of reference pic. Although I usually try use stock photos of random people, as opposed to known actors or celebrities, so that my character sketch doesn’t come out looking too much like a known person.
Oh wow, she turned out so well- I love her hair
Also- go Voula and the age gap!
@ Jax
Heheh! *grin* Yeah, I’ve never tried to write a May-December romance before, but this just seemed right.
Oddly enough, the original Kelly character was sorta forty-ish, and the proto-Voula character (whose name was originally Vanessa) was a twenty-something. But it never really felt right until I flipped it around… I guess maybe part of it was, I got tired of seeing the endless parade of kickass young things on SF & fantasy book covers.