figjam | Kanera Character Reference

Kanera doesn't really get an update as such, since I've never actually drawn a character reference for him, so rather this is just cementing the boy. For Kanera, 'good enough,' for the most part, is good enough, but he still likes to look fabulous and peacock as much as he can around the powerful women in his life. He's seventeen, so not yet old enough to grow meaningful face fuzz, and he knows from when Sahid went through the same phase that mother and sister do not approve of the halfarsed face fuzz, so clean shaven he remains. Also fully-waxed elsewhere, again a class thing in tropical Kazin, not a gendered thing. Side note, super proud of the shading on this one, especially the shadow of his hand on his face.

CASUAL FROG SARONG. This was fun to draw :D I love those colours, the lime green and orange with the dark blue. He also gets a cape/shawl/generally superfluous length of silk to flap around behind him and be Extra. Minimal effort for maximum peacocking, hell yeah. Minimal jewllery for the same reason, just a necklace, single set of earrings (or one earring? idk, I don't feel like Kazin would do that. Raykin are the asymmetrical kingdom) and foot jewellery. And an easy bit of bright green makeup over one eye.

ARMY Here's where the 'good enough' really comes to the fore--missing his gloves, leg guards, extra belt to keep his tunic and mail from moving around, and arm band, because what you see is good enough and that'll pass as uniform. No breastplate yet as that denotes rank and, as a 17-year-old, Kanera's still just a trainee. He still gets a golden peacock feather embroidered on his tunic, though, which indicates royalty. Doesn't mean shit in terms of army hierarchy but it does mean beware of mummy to the other trainees.

FEATHERDOWN White makaki, again because he's a trainee and doesn't yet have a rank. The majority of trainees don't have a makaki, just those with rich enough parents to get them one. This was an exercise in figuring out what the hell the bottom of their feet do and, in true Kanera style, I've decided for this one to call it good enough. I've largely been using camels, llamas and guanacos as reference for makakis, cos they're suitably awkward and scrawny-butted, but their feet? Stupid. They don't look real. Now I know makakis aren't real but there was no way I could draw this sodding thing and make it LOOK real. It looked like a balloon. So I had a look at kangaroos, not wildly useful since they have one massive middle toe and a squibby useless thing off to each side, but it did give me the idea to separate the toe beans from the main pad, so it looks... not perfect but better. I've got the idea, anyway.