Good evening, Steemit! Upon my return I've been reading quite a few "I'm finally back" posts. I fall in to that category, but I've been keeping an eye on Steemfest and the currency value, buy my hiatus was work related only. As I've mentioned in previous posts here, NOIR is an annual Old Hollywood black and white photography event I hold in Minneapolis, NYC and Los Angeles. This past week was NOIR I LA, and while I'll have an entire blog about it, it was tough to be away from Steemit for the duration of that work week.

One of the benefits of the trip, however, was a four hour flight from Minneapolis, during which I worked on another character design for my Steemit inspired comic project, Cryptopia [...it officially has a name now and you can here the full script for the first issue here]. Without further adieu, here's the character inventory and design for Mariana.

Mariana Apostolakis Malfatti

Basic Statistics

Age: 29

Ethnicity: Brazilian

Hometown: São Paulo, Brazil

Parents: Living Mother and Father

Children: None

Networth: $230,000

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5’8”

Weight: 123 lbs.

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Shape Of Face: Angular

Distinguishing Features: Excessive tattoos on arms, chest and hands

How Does She Dress: Well dressed, business professional and fashion fetish

Habits: Drinking and socializing

Health: Good mental health, determined and confident. Good physical health with regular exercise and diet

Favorite Saying: "Why couldn't we do this in the church?”

Greatest Flaw: Loyal to a fault

Best Quality: Hardened sense of self discipline

Character Summary

Mariana Apostolakis Malfatti is the partner of Allan Graves. Both are immigrants to The UK, living in a post Brexit London. As such, they're experiences with being marginalized, harassed and discriminated against lead them towards an unlikely path of social activism. Allan, a tattoo artist, and Mariana, fetish fashion design, became favored with a younger counter-culture that hailed them as a power couple in the new world order.

Mariana is Allan's equal, and an essential part of his pursuit of becoming top witness. She finances much of the witness endeavor and is an exceptional campaign manager. Of the trio of Allan and York Ellis, Mariana is the clue that holds this political force together, often keeping two punks pointed in the right direction to advance in the rapidly changing world of crypto-interests.

Mariana is an intelligent, capable and calculated business woman. Prior to her crypto-political rise, she gained a massive following as a fetish model and fashion designer, and continues to do both despite her joined ventures hoping to be voted as top witness [...as does Allan continue tattooing]. Her extracurricular hobbies only make her more popular with her fanbase.

Have a look at this hyperlapse drawing, all done on the iPad Pro using Apple Pencil and Procreate.

Glad to be back! Follow my blog @kommienezuspadt for more Cryptopia art and writings.

Mariana Apostolakis Malfatti character design for Cryptopia comic!