I had the idea to do a giant sketch dump because I've been doing mostly sketches lately (personal Photoshop projects are all on hold for a certain commission ), but I realized I wanted this new character of mine to have more of an introduction than a fleeting appearance in a giant pile of random doodles, so here she is in her own pile.

Nahimana is my new Native American character for an RPG I'm helping *gazzi-the-great set up called White Man's Treasure. The sort of plot takes place in the "New World" and the English settlers have just arrived, and I'm the moderator for the tribe that tries to be peaceful with them. Nahimana is the chieftess. Oh, I know, epic fail-- I made another female character when I had the most obvious chance to create a coveted male character, but because I'm a moderator for this and here for the seriously-long term, I didn't want to inadvertently give myself an obsticle in my own character because I felt I needed a risk. But I don't suppose you're asking for excuses. She's pretty, eh? lol

Nahimana has a bit of a complicated bio so I won't post it, but in short she's the widow of the tribe's chief, and she's infertile so it's very hard for her to have babies. So she's currently in the pickle of not having an heir to chiefdom... and I've got sort of a complicated solution for that in the works; we'll see how that plays out.

I put this in Traditional Work because it's mostly traditional--I can't believe they don't have a category yet in Mixed Media for traditional and digital work.

EDIT: My mother (good old mothers, right?) was quick to point out that the headdress was a Great Plains indian thing and not an Eastern Coast indian thing, so I figured I ought to emphasize that these tribes are fictional, the cultures are fictional, and so the fashions are fictional. *flies artistic liscense flag*

Character design and art (c) *Trounced/Deanna Trudeau