Kawashima

This is one of the characters in a current personal project I am doing, a novel called 'The Blank Tone'. He's not the main character, but he is an important support chara. Now one would think that I should be designing the protagonist instead before making up the side characters, but his image is a bit clearer to me than the rest so I decided to draw him first *face palm*

This is just a draft since I'm planning to improve his clothing. Fashion is important!   The name is Kawashima. Just Kawashima at the moment. I'd already gave him a given name, but that's a secret for now.

Hopefully I am able to design the other charas and not procrastinate like I used to. But I can't help but feel I am working instead of doing all this just for fun... OTL

The book I am working on is set in modern Japan in the year 2045. The genre is basically dementia, school life and a bit of romedy (romance and comedy mixed - I accidentally said that to my friend when I wanted to say both at once ) hopefully it will have a bit of humour. Have to do some research too, but I don't mind. One thing I actually like doing when I was working on my assignments at school is research. So many stuffs out there I don't even know about! (which is probably why sometimes it strayed off to a completely different tangent...  )

Tools used:
PaintTool SAI (I just discovered the handy use of drawing modes like overlay and multiply - why didn't I notice earlier??)
Photoshop CS5.1