Kentworth: Lucky Break (update)

 UPDATE: For the first time ever, you can now read one of the short stories from the world of Forest! "Lucky Break" is from Kentworth's POV, so if you want to learn about him, read it here: Lucky Break on Inkitt If you enjoy it, please feel free to let me know!

So this picture has been finished for a while but I needed to get time to upload it! This is Kentworth, Elise's husband and Will's father!

Kentworth is an interesting character. I didn't create him until late 2006 so he's one of the "newer" characters, whereas characters like Garizole had been around for two years prior. Yet somehow, after all those years, it's only recently that I've really gotten to know this guy and know him well, and he's now one of my favorites.

But that doesn't mean I could handle him in real life! Ken is a great guy, super nice, but he's VERY extroverted, boisterous, and talkative, and as an introvert that would send me running! His wife is an introvert, too, actually, but she's much more tolerant than me and needs his silliness and sense of humor in her life. But at the same time, he wasn't always so confident, and that kind of character development is what finally made him catch my eye as a character I REALLY enjoy working with. As of now he has one short story (I really recommend writing short stories for character development, by the way--even if you write novels it's a great way to test out ideas or potential chapters) but I have a huge list of stories I'm dying to work on with him. This particular picture is supposed to be from his short story rather than Forest, where it's a grayish rainy day and he's younger/in the best shape of his life (won't stay that way... Sorry Ken!!)

Interested in learning more about the characters from The Forest Stories? Check out my Forest gallery.

Family Members: (check out the Dockmans gallery)


Basic Process: Pencil sketch, inked in prismacolor fine line markers, colored with copics (and prismacolor for the trees), put through Photoshop for cleanup.

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