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HILDA!

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My god....

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I FOUND YOU ON PINTEREST

WHAT

YOU ARE EVERYWHERE

I AMMMM HEEHEHH

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Miraculous AU, anyone?

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Character healer=cinnamon roll=Dangerous People

I’ve been wanting to draw this since Mountain King came out

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Nice pijama

Did not like her old jammas ☹️ but NOW she’s ready to hoooooonk mimimi

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Hilda and Karen answer your burning questions.

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Hilda and Karen answer your burning questions.

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WOW, Hilda have so much sisters..... I very confuse

Hilda has an older sister named Lauren in the Netflix series Hilda…

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Kaisa 8C

I had fun messing with colours for this one!

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:v

I only can say; XD

Hilda has an older sister named Lauren in the Netflix series Hilda…

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I have a hc that the memory erasure done to her as a kid also gave her memory problems n thr future, at first it was waved off as her being scattered brained.

But as she got older, it turned into brain fog, which fluctuated w her mood/depressive episodes. Like that sense of knowing, x happened just not remembering anything, akin to a repressed traumatic memory.

It was worse during her highschool n college years but shes better now.

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You take the moon and you take the sun

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I LOOKED UP GERDA AND THERES LOW QUALITY REPOSTS OF THE SHITTY CUTOUT I MADE OF HER BACK IM LIKE 2021 FOR MY INACCURATE ASS HEIGHT CHART WHAT

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Early concept sketches of Midnight Giant Lauren! You can see me figuring out the style, colours, as well as Lauren’s outfits, plus a little Hilda that I wanted to include but gave up on cause I couldn’t get her to look right.

Johanna switches outfits about 3 times in this comic, so I wanted Lauren to do the same. Also, since Johanna’s deerfox outfit in the flashback is based off one of her looks in mountain king, I wanted Lauren’s to as well! So one of these outfits will be repurposed for teenaged Show!Lauren in the deerfox later down the line, which I think is fitting because she’d be around the same age in the flashback as Comic!Lauren is here

I didn’t talk much about my design process in the original post, so I’ll make a couple notes on that under the cut!

Here’s the final product for reference-

Though Johanna changes outfits about 3 times in this comic, one of these outfit changes is just the same outfit but with trousers instead of a skirt. So I wanted one of Lauren’s outfit changes to be more subtle, keeping most of the same items of clothing but only changing the jumper!

In terms of her outfits, I tried to add a little bit of a late 2000s - early 2010s vibe, which I think makes her fit in a lot more

Whilst this style still features quite noodley characters, it allowed me to bulk up Lauren much more than the troll did, so I took advantage of that and started adding in juuuust a little muscle! But she’s still kind of twig looking, so I brought back the same trick I used in the troll and gave her a big ol’ pile of logs and a heavy axe to weild in one of the sketches just to show that she’s a strong girl. I swear I tried to think of something other than an axe but it’s surprisingly hard to think of heavy objects that a character would just be. Carrying around lol

Looking back at this design a few months later, the biggest thing I’d change is I’d make her look a bit younger. It’s a little hard to design a unique character when you only have two points of reference lol, one of which is an adult and the other of which is a child, so I think I made her look a bit too much like an adult, oh well!

One thing I kept though to help her look younger is her freckles, same as Hilda! I love freckles but I swear I never use them in character designs. This design feature disappears from Hilda in the later comics, but I wanna keep them for Lauren for as long as I can tbh…

I mentioned before that I thought it would make sense for Lauren to go through a couple different hairstyles before reaching her final one in these early comics - the designs in the show are based off the ones in stone forest, which was the most recent comic to be released at the time the show came out. The style and characters designs had changed a lot from the early comics, and one of my favourite things about reading through the series is seeing how the designs changed and progressed before reaching those “final” versions, so I’m kinda reverse engineering Lauren’s design process to get that effect here, and I think one way that’d be shown is through her hair. Here her style is getting closer to the final version, her fringe has been lifted so it no longer covers her eye, and she’s got more of a curl! But her strands fall a little differently, so we’re not quite there yet…

I struggled a LOT with colouring this one, and that’s because I got the colour count wrong! One of the most overlooked ways to emulate a style is to count how many different colours appear per character - Hilda The Series generally has 6, 2 for hair and skin, and 4 for outfits, though the number can change. I miscounted here and thought the comics had 4 outfit colours like the show, but they actually only have 3. Once I realised that it made things much easier, though I still sent a little over it with some varying shades of green in her shoes. These kinds of rules generally aren’t firm, and might not even be one’s the original artist is even aware of, but when you’re trying to emulate someone’s work these little things can make all the difference

Show!Lauren probably doesn’t play guitar, I’ve mentioned before that I think she’s decent at piano and I stand by that, but I thought it was fitting for Comic!Lauren lol

That’s everything I can think of right now!

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Lmao look what I found in my sketches folder

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,':l

What the—

Being in a small fandom is so funny cause it’s like here’s someone I fully thought was on par with Beyoncé for a week before realising they were just some guy, here’s my bestie I made a blood pact with, and here’s a guy who genuinely wants me dead and they all live in my house