The third entry in my Singular Sensation series is of another character that I drew for the wrap-around cover of Oziana #37, Polychrome.  This was the third time I had drawn Polychrome, and only the second time I had colored a drawing of her.  She is a fairy and the daughter of the rainbow, and coloring her can be quite a complicated process.  In the books, she is always described and depicted as wearing a dress in rainbow colors.  I didn’t want the colors to just be plain vertical stripes.  That would be boring.  It was a fun challenge to have them blend all together in a diagonal direction.  In the books, she’s usually always dancing about, so it was very important that there be a sense of energy going on.

Polychrome is a visually fascinating character to me, like Scraps the Patchwork Girl, because of all the colors involved.  The great thing about the two characters is seeing how two characters full of different colors can also look so differently.  Scraps is a loud and boisterous character in the books, so her colors need to be intense.  Polychrome is usually written as a sweet and passive character, so I use tones that are, in comparison, more subdued on her.
Pencils, Ink, Prismacolor Color Pencils, Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
©Kevenn T. Smith 2010