Edit: NO idea why the picture flipped. The app won't let me update, and I'm too tired to fight with it right now. I'll fix it later.

First complete drawing after a double hit from COVID knocked me down last year. I don’t super love it, but I don't hate it, either, which is an improvement for me. I like it at least well enough for a first post.

Mike is a huge pain to draw ... so I'm glad I finally have at least one drawing from the past 5yrs that I can refer to. He has prominent features with proportions that are elongated or exaggerated, and he's really bony. Meaning: after all this time of not drawing people as much as I used to, I need to learn to draw them again.

The headband is mostly drawn from a creature cultural motif I came up with, with a subtle Navaho influence, which fits the character's familial background. The feathers are all _Ryozae_ (my dino aliens), and they're all from people he knows or has chosen to honor for personal reasons.

Mike's also an ass, and will do stuff like this at least in part because he knows it will disrupt the masses. (He goes by his surname "Blackwood" throughout the series, only officially picking up Lushonra near the end.)