This is my female design entry for =kitton's character design contest. It’s very… random, but I had the best time working on it.

Edit for: Flaws and de-MarySue-ification. She should have a little more bite and depth to her now. She might seem to like you all right, but when you find out you aren’t attractive enough or of the right race to earn her approval, she might not seem so nice anymore

Basic Stats:
Name: Aleana Azarial
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Height: 5'7"
Race: Pixie Snow Leopard
Eyes: Violet
Hair: Dark gray
Build: Medium and curvy
Occupation: Wind Mage of (intermediate skill)
Theme colors: Violet, Blue, Gray
Orientation: Variable
Likes: Reading, Learning, Mushrooms, Children, Soft Fabric
Dislikes: Dishonesty, Disloyalty, the color Yellow, Confrontation, Ants, and Humans

Personality:

Aleana is a happy and generally optimistic disposition. She is quiet, and easy to get along with on a surface level, if a little distant. She is very focused in general, even if she is focusing on daydreams. She studies hard and tries to always pull her weight in any group she's in, as fitting with her personal standards of excellence. She likes working on straight forward tasks and having a Plan of attack, or several if needed. She is intelligent, but her single mindedness and tendency to concentrate on what she wants to concentrate on can make her seem a little slow. She enjoys her magical knowledge and skills, and practices defense, minor healing spells, and simple illusions. She is slowly learning rune circle style magic, partially for its aesthetic value. She is slow to anger and slow to attack aggressively, so in combat she usually takes a defensive role.

Relationship Dynamics:
Aleana has a unique way of making herself comfortable in a group, especially groups of mostly humans. She almost unconsciously picks two favorites: A charismatic person to follow, male or female, who she looks up as a hero and a possible crush, and a younger or shyer person to protect. She doesn't fawn or nag her favorites or become possessive or jealous of their friends and lovers, but she is constantly watching them and being overly helpful. Depending on whom she favors, this can be a pleasant or extremely annoying trait. If her favorites critique her behavior, she overreacts. She is surprisingly aggressive in protecting her favorites from harm. She focuses the majority of her attention on these chosen individuals and for that reason she can seem aloof or cold to everyone else. Unfortunately, that impression is correct. Though she tries to hide it, she does feel superior to everyone else, as she looks down on humans as lesser beings.

Flaws: Aleana is easy to get along with on a surface level, but she is very fixed in her view of the world and is not open or tolerate of other people’s view points. She won’t be the first to bring it up, but if someone pushes her they’ll be unpleasantly surprised about how close-minded she really is and how much she considers to be wrong about what they believe. She is naïve about many of things she has opinions about, especially relationships but refuses to learn from other people who know from experience. She relies on books and her professors as the basis for her views. Even though she works with humans all the time, she has a deep-seated prejudice that they are lesser beings (her favorites are the exceptions.) She is elitist and disdainful, and picks her favorites for aesthetic reasons. People have to prove their worth to her for her to really care about them, rather than just being polite. She is impatient with those who don’t plan, and will slip into fights about how to organize things. She really hates to back down, as she feels her way is the right way. People who get to know what she really believes probably won’t like her unless they happen to agree with her biased views. Because she is so unwilling to change, anyone who wants to reform her would have a) Gradually change her reading material b) Be a respected educator who broaches the subject very gradually.

Keywords: Loyal, Focused, Disciplined, Detail-Oriented, Helpful, Patient with tasks, Impatient with people, Protective, Stubborn, Dependent, Close-Minded, Dreamy, Lazy, Cold, Aloof, Conceited, Perfectionist, Vain.

She would benefit greatly from working with someone who is patient, spontaneous, and able to see the bigger picture, if she actually listen to them. She sometimes has to be talked into doing tasks that don't seem relevant to her but have a vital role in accomplishing a goal, but once she gets going she is very diligent and precise.

A tactics conversation with her might go like this:

Leader: "Aleana, I need you to take out that tree."
Aleana: "That tree? Why?"
Leader: "Just take out that tree, and I'll explain later."
Aleana: "All right." *puzzled*
Aleana eliminates the tree and is prizing out the roots when the battle ends.
Leader: "Great work. You prevented the enemy from ambushing us and reduced their magic pool."
Aleana: "Thank you, but I think I missed a root..." *frets"
Leader: "..."

Notes:
This is my first real attempt at a digital character sheet _and_ at digital coloring, so it's intense I love drawing wind mages in light colors, but I wanted something a little different for Aleana. I abused the smudge on handpainting mode, but mostly used pure colors. I'm debuting whether or this is just too busy for a basic character sheet... but it's so pretty The coloring reminds me of bubblegum. Those clothes are more practical than they look, honest Anybody like the texture?

Pigma Micron 005 on beige memory book paper for the lineart, and way too much Photoshop 7 for the color. Hours: 5 lineart and inking, 6-7 coloring. I worked on this piece from 9:30pm last night to 5:30 am, after an eight hour shift (11:45am-8:00pm) at work 8 hours at the library, 8 hours drawing... my eyes are tired.