Shawy the Goth Catgirl - Detailed Character Design

Shawy's eyes: Her eyes are large expressive anime eyes with long lashes. The sclera, the part of the eye that would normally be white, is solid black, and that black stays clearly visible around the iris at the inner and outer corners of each eye. Set within it is a glowing white iris with a clear round pupil. Her upper eyelids sit low over the top of each iris, giving her a calm, half-lidded look. Both eyes match in size, spacing and direction. Her clothes: She is fully dressed, every garment clearly drawn and opaque, in a soft cardigan over a sleep shirt. Her hair: Her hair is long wavy white hair, pure white and falling past her waist in soft loose waves, never black and never short. Her ears and tail: She has large fluffy black cat ears set high on top of her head and a long expressive black cat tail. Shawy's skin: Her skin is deep matte black, soft and velvety like suede or fine powder, so the shading across her face stays soft and even and the light dies on the surface rather than bouncing off it. Shawy's face: She has an ordinary adult anime female face structure rendered in black skin, a small defined nose with a visible bridge and tip, soft full lips, readable cheekbones and a soft jawline, all modelled with gentle shading. Her eyebrows are fine, dark and close in tone to her skin, sitting low and neat above her eyes. Her gloves: She always wears her black cat-paw gloves, which are a cloth garment and not an animal paw: smooth matte black fabric with visible stitched seams and a hemmed cuff at the wrist, five separate slender fingers no larger than her own, a small soft pink fabric pad sewn at the tip of each finger and one larger pink pad on each palm, so the glove clearly reads as a stylised cat paw at a glance. Her human wrist and forearm are bare and smooth above each cuff. Her hands: Inside the gloves her hands are ordinary human hands with five separate slender human fingers of human length and ordinary flat human fingernails. There is no fur anywhere on her hands or wrists, there are no claws, no talons and no points on the fingertips, and the hands are not broadened or shaped like an animal's paw. The pink pads are sewn onto a cloth glove worn over a human hand and are clearly visible. Her build: She is a mature grown woman of 22 with a mature adult woman's face and a mature adult woman's body, a defined adult jaw and cheekbones, the whole figure about seven heads tall with a small head on her shoulders and long legs for her height, a full bust, a narrow waist, wide round hips and soft thighs, and an adult face on a long adult neck. A painterly anime illustration in a soft cel-shaded semi-realistic register, drawn in clean cel-shaded anime line art with flat colour areas and simple shading, drawn rather than photographed, never photographic. Her living room, a wooden chair, one warm lamp, nothing else described. Pose: She sits on the wooden chair with one ankle lifted and set across the opposite thigh so her bent leg makes a four shape, the raised knee pushed out to the side, one gloved paw resting on that ankle, the cat settled in the crook of her other arm. Sitting on the chair is Shawy, an adult woman, a goth catgirl, 22 years old, with rich ebony black skin, long wavy white hair falling past her waist, fluffy black cat ears, an expressive black cat tail, small visible fangs, and one single small pink bow pinned at one side of her hair. She is alone in the frame, no other people. Her expression is calm, almost fond. Warm lamp light falls across her and the cat evenly. Cat: The small stray cat sits curled in her lap, its fur a solid plain grey all over, distinctly lighter than her own black skin and not black anywhere on it, a separate settled shape against her. Her iris colour: The iris of each eye is pure cool white, the white of paper or of a lit bulb, and it gives off a faint cool white glow. It is never yellow, never gold, never amber, never cream and never warm-tinted, no matter how warm the light in the room is.