A character I designed as a part of the Character Design elective at TH OWL, Germany (Guided by Celia Kaspar)

North Indian weddings are glamorous and beautiful, and so are all the guests attending them. When one is a wedding guest not close enough to the family to be actively participating in the rituals, but also close enough not to leave during the night, they find themselves waiting around the whole night, struggling to stay awake and pass time.

Auntiji is one such wedding guest, except she doesn't get to sit around thanks to her two very troublesome children. She is a single mother trying to keep her kids in check while trying not to create a scene. Her design is her journey through the night as she goes through all 5 stages of grief getting them to behave.

She is a very exhausted mother, much like a lot of the lovely women in my life. She is realistic, she cares, she works extremely hard and most of all, she is beautiful.