Pandemonium: Alex

“Don’t believe her.”
The whole world closes around me, like an eyelid: For a moment, everything goes dark.
I am falling. My ears are full of rushing; I have been sucked into a tunnel, a place of pressure and chaos. My head is about to explode.
He looks different. He is much thinner, and a scar runs from his eyebrow all the way down to his jaw. On his neck, just behind his left ear, a small tattooed number curves around the three-pronged scar that fooled me, for so long, into believing he was cured. His eyes—once a sweet, melted brown, like syrup—have hardened. Now they are stony, impenetrable.
Only his hair is the same: that auburn crown, like leaves in autumn.
Impossible. I close my eyes and reopen them: the boy from a dream, from a different lifetime. A boy brought back from the dead.
Alex.
- Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Do i even need to explain the need to draw alex? nope, ok great. So i was thinking of drawing a portrait like this for several characters from each book, so i decided on alex (but pandemonium alex, not delirium). It took me a while to figure out that “crown of autumn leaves” means “auburn” she says it in requiem and needless to say the “dont believe her” just made my heart sink to my feet, like OUCH. I also tried to add as much details as mentioned like the scar on his eye and the random crypts number on his neck… any way… it’s the first time i draw someone facing the screen head on, i like it…. LENA IS NEXT.

i followed virias coloring and eye tutorials to make this.