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Edit: Hehe, I think I've found a way to fix the marker bleeds.
Done with Copic markers.

I used at leas three colors for the lovely dark skin: YR24 -Pale Sepia (for the base), E37 -Sepia (for the actual skin color), and Y38 -Honey (for a top coating, because I messed up, but it served to fix the miscolored dark spots).

Still need white out for the eyes and teeth... because no one like yellow teeth. And for the shine on the skin too.

I'm in the stage of planning out my characters for this story I want to get done (I'm still learning how to draw guys, and hot ones at that. ). I'm not sure if I'm going write it or make it into a graphic novel, but dammit, I WILL get it done!!!

Numyamka (Noom-yahm-kuh) the orphan. She resides in a compound where a slightly perverted old man cares for other orphans.

Somewhat bashful, and reticent around others, she is nonetheless an interesting person to be around, and despite these traits, she is highly curious and will not let bashfulness get in the way most of the time. Her curiosity and sense of adventure is always forcing her to seek lost artifacts or explore new places.
A sense of disheartenment is always simmering underneath her optimism. This is due to the loss of her parents, whom she was very close to. She is also a bit defensive, and easliy hurt when she is critized. She is also vunerable to deep bouts of depression at times.
Her mother, upon her death, had told her that she would watch over her once she had joined the ancestors; this came to pass, as a Bioko bird (presumeably the mother's spirit) is often found at her mother's grave site, and eventually comes to join the lonely Numyamka at her home in the perverted old man's compound.

Amoung the Kabujo, who are for the most part egalitarian, tend to be matriarchal in societal practices and many customs. Orphans are looked down upon in society, because the mother is the family history and basically the only person who may consent for marriage and to whom the suitor's family pays the bride price to. It is also becuase they have no mother to pass on inheritence, the family line stops, and it is extremely hard or rare for a motherless young woman to marry (the husband marries into wife's family, and the mother of the wife is head of the clan; grandmothers are the backbone of clans).

These circumstances deter Numyamka from admitting her budding affection and attraction to a young man named Lekan (Lay-khan; meaning "my wealth is secured" in Yoruba ). She shows her affections through secret means- leaving small presents such as fruit or food that she cooked in front of his home, using her sculpting skills and making two small statues of Lekan's newly deceased younger siblings, and leaving coral and other types of jewlery in front of his hut on his birthday.

She has a fish named Zobo, whom she talks to very often. Strangely, the fish seems to respond with certain actions, depending on the mood Numyamka is in. He is named after a drink that is a Nigerian version of fruit punch.xD

This will be colored soon, just wanted to get it up because it was really killing me.

Description

Edit: Hehe, I think I've found a way to fix the marker bleeds.
Done with Copic markers.

I used at leas three colors for the lovely dark skin: YR24 -Pale Sepia (for the base), E37 -Sepia (for the actual skin color), and Y38 -Honey (for a top coating, because I messed up, but it served to fix the miscolored dark spots).

Still need white out for the eyes and teeth... because no one like yellow teeth. And for the shine on the skin too.

I'm in the stage of planning out my characters for this story I want to get done (I'm still learning how to draw guys, and hot ones at that. ). I'm not sure if I'm going write it or make it into a graphic novel, but dammit, I WILL get it done!!!

Numyamka (Noom-yahm-kuh) the orphan. She resides in a compound where a slightly perverted old man cares for other orphans.

Somewhat bashful, and reticent around others, she is nonetheless an interesting person to be around, and despite these traits, she is highly curious and will not let bashfulness get in the way most of the time. Her curiosity and sense of adventure is always forcing her to seek lost artifacts or explore new places.
A sense of disheartenment is always simmering underneath her optimism. This is due to the loss of her parents, whom she was very close to. She is also a bit defensive, and easliy hurt when she is critized. She is also vunerable to deep bouts of depression at times.
Her mother, upon her death, had told her that she would watch over her once she had joined the ancestors; this came to pass, as a Bioko bird (presumeably the mother's spirit) is often found at her mother's grave site, and eventually comes to join the lonely Numyamka at her home in the perverted old man's compound.

Amoung the Kabujo, who are for the most part egalitarian, tend to be matriarchal in societal practices and many customs. Orphans are looked down upon in society, because the mother is the family history and basically the only person who may consent for marriage and to whom the suitor's family pays the bride price to. It is also becuase they have no mother to pass on inheritence, the family line stops, and it is extremely hard or rare for a motherless young woman to marry (the husband marries into wife's family, and the mother of the wife is head of the clan; grandmothers are the backbone of clans).

These circumstances deter Numyamka from admitting her budding affection and attraction to a young man named Lekan (Lay-khan; meaning "my wealth is secured" in Yoruba ). She shows her affections through secret means- leaving small presents such as fruit or food that she cooked in front of his home, using her sculpting skills and making two small statues of Lekan's newly deceased younger siblings, and leaving coral and other types of jewlery in front of his hut on his birthday.

She has a fish named Zobo, whom she talks to very often. Strangely, the fish seems to respond with certain actions, depending on the mood Numyamka is in. He is named after a drink that is a Nigerian version of fruit punch.xD

This will be colored soon, just wanted to get it up because it was really killing me.