Sunday, May 22, 2011

Lucid: Sakura Miyazaki


Sakura Miyazaki is a Lucid, a person that can control what happens in the Dream Dimension.  She is one of the main characters for the stories about them, although she was originally being used as a figurehead for a cult led by Voy.  Thanks to the interference of Ken Thunder, however, Sakura was able to foil Voy's scheme (for now) and join the Dream Police.  Now she hopes that she can experience everything the Dream Dimension has to offer.

Sakura is generally a sweet girl who is willing to help whoever needs it.  However, she can be suspicious of strange people she meets at first.  Luckily, she can vaguely judge a person's personality easily and warm up to good-natured people rather quickly.  The one thing she cannot stand above all else is being betrayed or lied to.  Outside of that, she gets along decently with most people, although she sticks with Ken on most missions.

This drawing was drawn with regular pencil and paper first and colored in Photoshop.  Sakura's body is supposed to be based a bit off of some concept art I found of Princess Zelda for Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.  Seeing as she's supposed to be a main character and only about 16, she's supposed to appear cute and approachable.  Originally, I thought of making her costume mainly blue, but I decided to dress her in red and pink to make her more true to her name ("sakura" is Japanese for "cherry blossom", which is pink, and its fruit is red).  Her hair was also originally black, but I noticed one cartoon with characters with black hair that was illuminated a bluish-gray.  I decided to try out the dark blue hair on Sakura.