Heather Portrait
Yay, it's done! I wasn't sure if I wanted to draw Heather with her hair out of her eyes or not, but I ended up doing it this way because this is how she usually has it and it shows her personality really well, even if it was a little bit hard to shade all of her hair and I would have loved to draw her other eye... Somehow, even though I make it dark under her eyes, Heather always manages to look really pretty. And maybe that's just because there's a lot of shadows on her face anyway, but she's special. The sad thing is that those eyes are gone now. And... I actually have a lot of thoughts on this, so bear with me.
Marsh is one of my favorite characters in all of literature, so I've had a lot of time to picture him. Even before he was all spiked up, his eyes carried a lot of meaning. Brandon does a good job of mentioning them. At least, I'm pretty he does. I think he mentions their hardness when he has that interaction with Kelsier when you first meet him, but I know for a fact that when he talks to Vin, it mentions whenever he looks away from her. That scene has always carried a lot of weight for me because it shows how softhearted he is. He's outwardly pretty cold and I feel like his eyes are one of the only ways he shows emotion.
For Heather, it's actually really similar. Not so much for Shadow, but that makes sense because Shadow is a Sliver with a drinking problem and Heather is a broken, depressed teenager... with a drinking problem. And she is outwardly quite cold. Not cold like mean, but cold like antisocial. And... kind of mean sometimes. Not the point. I'm focusing more on a series of moments when Heather (and Shadow, actually) interacts with Star. A lot of times when Star will say something that Heather really needs to hear, she'll just sit there and stare at her. And, as with Marsh, the emotion comes out that way.
Heather has the unique ability to say more with her eyes than most people can say in a speech. And that is incredible. I wasn't able to quite capture it here, but I got pretty close, close enough that I'm proud to have drawn this. But I think I might be even more proud that I've gotten to know this wonderful character.
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