Name: Tenshi
Nationality: REDACTED
Class: REDACTED
As you might’ve guessed, Tenshi is also the one on the cover of this art collection, meaning she gets three whole sketches (not even including the oldest sketches I didn’t scan), which is far more than anyone else. Naturally, that’s ‘cause she’s best girl.
She’s another character I can’t say too much about without spoilers (hence the redacted), especially as she’s a bit of a mysterious character anyway, but Nor’s way of drawing her really evolved with each sketch. The drawing on the right was the oldest, followed by the cover art, followed by the one on the left (which I think is the most “Tenshi”), showing how her design changed with time.
For Tenshi and a couple other characters sharing a similar background, I wanted to convey what I call the “ugly but cute” style; it’s hard to explain, but take Tenshi; she’s thin to the point of anorexia, and always looks dead on her feet (with bags under her eyes), but she still has a sort of ethereal beauty to her. I felt that was the best way to not “put makeup on” her hardships, but still not fall into the trap of making all the hard-done by characters ugly to show their issues.
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