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I usually heavily dislike practicing symmetry in my artwork. It's nothing against the practice itself or artists that utilise it in their artwork, I only heavily dislike it in practice with my own artwork. It feels unnatural and inorganic to me, even creepy if used on a human being. However, after following a collection of symmetrical illustrations drawn by " 3DROD ", I felt inspired to draw my own featuring the tag-n'-dash queen herself; Candy Highway! Candy Highway standing

One of the early "finalised" drafts of Candy Highway's design. One of the primary goals I wanted to achieve with her design was to make it EASY and FUN to draw her in dynamic poses and exaggerative shapes.  I was incredibly conflicted when deciding if her eyes should stay behind her hair or overlap her hair completely as I always liked one, then would flip back to the other. Eventually, I decided to leave it up to the artist as it can look very good either way!!! Buuuuut i do

Whilst designing Candy Highway, I had a difficult time balancing the clownish and street-smart aspects of her personality into her design without leaning too much in one direction over the other. Below is a draft of Candy's design where her clown aesthetic takes a bigger role into her outfit. Deciding her skin-tone was something I put into heavy consideration. She is a mix of Ghanaian and Black British, so while I always envisioned her accent STRONGLY British, her skin-tone t