A farmboy turned college art student with the ability to animate the artwork he draws.
Personality
Donovon Sanders was brought up to be polite to others, always introducing himself when he meets someone new. He is soft spoken, but good natured, usually having a good word for everyone. He believes in hard work and helping others. Sketch is more confident and his abilities allows him to be self sufficient. He can become shy, especially around someone he likes.
Background
Donovon grew up living and working on his family's farm. With his older brother, he was home schooled until his brother went into the marines, and his family lost their farm due to bad investments. He was always a comic book fan and would often draw his own comics. Since then, he has come to the city to make his way at the university in art school.
Donovon started attending art school last semester after taking out a few loans. His raw skills were astonishing, but he needed some refinement and direction, so often took extra assignments to expand his knowledge. One evening doing an assignment about urban graffiti styles, he was jumped and attacked by a street gang. During the fight, he was beaten near unconsciousness, which awakened his mutant powers. Before passing out, he sought to protect his sketchbook, but his bloody hand touched the drawing he was doing of a shadow creature from a German legend. When it did, the creature came to life, running off his attackers and leaving him to be found by a delivery driver. Though his memory of the night is hazy, he soon found himself animating the very drawings that filled his sketchbook.
SKILLS
ARCHERY - Competent: Donovan has been hunting with his father and brother since he was ten years old.
ARTISTRY - Expert: Donovan is a highly skilled illustrator, using colored pencils, charcoal, markers, and paints as his medium. He is enrolled in art school at the university.
ATHLETICS - Competent: Donovan grew up working on a farm and is also on the track team in college.
COMPUTERS - Novice: Donovan can use computers and mobile devices, but is not by any means a power user.
EDUCATION - Competent: Donovan was home schooled and has recently begun his college education.
ENDURANCE - Competent: Having grown up on a farm, Donovan was a hard worker, often outlasting many of the hired hands.
MECHANICS - Novice: Donovan often helped his father repair some of the farm equipment, but has not used it for a few years.
OBSERVATION - Expert: As an artist, there is little that Donovon doesn't take in visually, always noticing details others miss, and enhanced since developing his powers.
SURVIVAL - Competent: Donovan knows safe plants to eat, can track many types of animals, and avoids getting lost in many types of terrain.
POWERS
DRAWING ANIMATION - Enhanced: Sketch is able to animate his own drawings with but a touch. Duration, power, and appearance depend upon the medium and whether he has bound the drawing.
ADVANTAGES
EIDETIC MEMORY Sketch can recall practically anything he has seen and produce a drawing of it with high accuracy.
WEAKNESSES
DEBT Donovan had to take out several loans to pay for his university classes since his family went bankrupt.
MATERIALS NEEDED Sketch requires drawing materials and a surface on which to draw the images he animates.
