Adeleine - A Kirby: Crystal Shards Fanart

My first completed work of 2023! This was an absolute blast to work on, and a huge homage to one of my original favorite characters from Childhood. This was done while following a character design Webinar given by the wonderful Leticia Gillett through Schoolism!
Adeleine, although not the main character of any Kirby game from Nintendo, left a huge impression on me as a kid as she was the first representation of an artist being a playable character in a video game for me! At 9 years old I had no idea she was a "girl" character, I just knew she was really cool to play as! I wanted to incorporate some of that androgynous shape language here as I felt it was incredibly important that her gender didn't matter. This design is a combination of several different takes on the character from across all of her video game appearances.
From here I'm looking to create a printable file along with a Retopo'd Game ready asset, so stay tuned for that!