Lydia Ma

Knowing Lydia a bit before Ting Lin and John Author, but I had a harder time drawing her. Because I rarely see her at the voice-over recording sessions unlike John and Ting who were always there. Also she likes to hide behind her huge pitch black or reflective sunglasses or looked away if there's a photo of her at all.

Luckily with Ting's help, finally I got a close-up picture of her face facing the camera and her eyes also looking into the camera. I based her facial features on that photo, but her holding a wine glass pose was based from another photo but looking away at the wine bottle. I took cues from her instagram photos that this Lydia lady is a wine addict so I had to draw that in added with her sassy attitude and her sassy hair.

After the pencil outline, the style formed and I felt this one should be left with simple black outline to fit the sassy attitude, so I did. And I added the hair coloring afterwards for balance so it's more dynamic on the top area and focus on her face and not bottom heavy with elbow and her left hand touching the bottom and side edges.