#<- kinda its real cartoony

[electrosweaters-arts]

Thinkin about this Gray thebodysnatcher doodle I did last night...what is he such a freak for

[today-i-am-thinking-about]

sims 4 hyper-realistic appearance mods

[xx-j4nu5-c4t5-xx]

"An ideal Sims game would have Sims 2's gameplay mechanics, Sims 3's open world, and Sims 4's graphics!"

I absolutely despise this take, and I want to explain why. This is a very long rant and it is full of piss and vinegar directed at everything in the Sims 4. I'm gonna try to keep everything kinda professional as much as I can but I can't guarantee an unbiased opinion.

If you'll let me talk your ears off for a moment, I'd like to explain, from my own experience as an artist and a casual player, my issues with the art style and direction of The Sims 4 compared to The Sims 2. (I'm not really going to comment on 3 because I've never played it.)

I want to start off by explaining the difference between better graphics and higher resolution. The Sims 4 absolutely blows Sims 2 out of the water when it comes to textures and polygon counts on sims, no contest. But I'd argue that the graphics themselves... aren't better. They're worse, even, so much fucking worse. The biggest problems come from the stylization and the animations, in my opinion, so I'll explain what I mean.

Have you ever felt like the Sims in 4 just look... weird? Not quirky, not kinda strange, but off. Distressing. Uncanny. Whatever the fuck the kids call it nowadays. When you strip away the packs and the CC and the shaders, the sims in the base game look bad. They're very close to being human; they walk like us, talk like us, have families like us, but they don't look like us, not exactly. There's always something off about them, no matter how close you try to get. Proportions will be a bit off, or your eyelashes will be like three polygons for some fucking reason, and the jig is up. The illusion is gone.

This is one of the instances where a higher resolution and more detailed models and meshes work against you. You aren't making believe. You are beyond the point of pretending that the pixelated shapes are real clothes and bodies and faces, because at this point, they're close enough that you don't need to. There's no gap to bridge. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're lifelike, at least, not enough to be completely human. In some ways, they're still tethered to being cartoony and plasticky and fake. Just enough to frighten you. Enough to put you off. They're not using it to their advantage anymore, and instead, it's holding them back.

When the Sims 2 came out in 2004, the developers knew that they weren't going to make a perfectly accurate life simulator. They physically couldn't render every wrinkle in the face or fold in the clothing. In some animations, things clip strangely or the facial expressions are sort of janky or there's just some form of roughness around the edges. But that's okay; your brain doesn't need a perfectly accurate representation this time. That's not what you're here for, anyway.

The Sims 4 is basically Icarus-ing itself into disaster. The entire game sacrifices style for complete realism, a goal that was unachievable ten years ago, and is unachievable now.

The Sims 2 never thought of itself as a completely realistic life sim, though. It has cartoony, low poly meshes and exaggerated proportions and wild, raunchy storylines that would never occur in real life. BECAUSE IT ISN'T REAL LIFE. And it isn't like real life, not because it's failing to be, but because it doesn't want to be!

The Sims 4 is not ever going to completely replicate human looks or interactions or dynamics. And if it's trying to, it's doing a shit job of it. That shouldn't be the goal in the first place. If I wanted to watch a lonely college student talk to himself in the mirror to try and get better at interacting with people, I'd close the computer and go look at myself. It somehow highlights the most mundane parts of life without any of the whimsy and goofiness that the earlier installments had. It takes itself too fucking seriously for its own good, and it's killing both the gameplay and the art style.

The other point I'd like to bring up is the animation. The Sims 4 allows for much more customization of both sim and environments, but at the cost of dynamic animations. How many times is that grab animation reused? How many times is the same set of animations used for sims with wildly different personalities? Your sims barely feel alive with how little they express themselves.

Now, look, I'm a digital artist. I've dabbled in animation, but only briefly, and only in 2D. I've got no clue how 3D animation works, much less how it worked 20 years ago, but I can see the passion in every single animation in the Sims 2. The more niche interactions allowed for more expressive animations than in 4. They could afford to have a distinct animation for mean sims throwing the football extra hard to be assholes, rather than every sim using the same generic football-throwing animation to save time and money. I get where they're coming from. I get the idea. But in one move, you've both made the art style stiffer and less expressive, and you've made the personalities of the sims seem meaningless. Everyone acts the same, regardless of what their moodlets or their traits say. It's hollow. It's stifled. It's a waste of potential.

But for what Sims 2 lacks in polygons, it makes up for in smaller animated details. Quality over quantity. The sims have hair physics, they open the door before they get in the car, they take utensils out of the counters when they cook, they jump on the couch and the cushions smush under their weight. When they dance, the weight is realistic, and when they smile, it tugs at every one of the few dozen shapes that make up their faces. The sims are lively. They dance and sing and love and hate just like humans, and rather than being some strange attempt at mimicry, it's almost a tribute. They were made with love. You can tell that they were drawn up and rigged and animated by a bunch of people working together, studying each other and making faces in the mirror for reference and watching their kids and neighbors and dogs and hands for reference. The sims are not human, and not trying to be, but they're taking the most human parts of us and making them their own.

You could never have a game with the Sims 4's graphics and the Sims 2's gameplay. The gameplay and graphics are inexorably connected, and the Sims 2 just has so much glorious detail baked into it, that you could never really make it work underneath the limitations of the later games. The developers of 2 knew what their limits were, and they worked tirelessly to make the game as full and complex as they could within those limits. The developers for the Sims 4 just did not have those guidelines, and thus, the drive to bend the rules was no longer there. They didn't go wild in rebellion because they were never told they couldn't in the first place. They spent the entire time chasing a goal they couldn't meet, and lost sight of what made the series fun to begin with.

It wasn't the realism you came for; you had realism already surrounding you. It was the caricature of it that made it interesting.

[pumpkinsy0]

It's been a rough couple weeks could I get some sweet Papercut head cannons?

of course!! hope everything gets better for u and that i could cheer u up w these!!

•pony likes curlys accent and curly knows it, sometimes he likes whispering things in kreyòl in ponys ear, and pony doesnt SWOON bc he knowwwss curlys doing something stupid and hes right, bc curly IS saying something so unromantic in his ear just trynna act like he aint

•speaking if kreyòl since where they grew up there isnt a lot of haitians, therefore nobody to translate what curlys saying to pony, for years pony just accepted that fact but as adults, pony asked curly wtf he was saying and curly just tells him!! no bullshit and some of the things were actually rlly sweet!!

•at some point, ponys realized that he doesnt have that many photos w curly, maybe like 3 from when they were younger, so when he gets his hand on a camera he makes sure to take like at least 10!! he wants to leave behind proof that they were together, no matter how it ends

•when someone has blue eyes, ponys realized that hes usually scared of them to some degree (tim, darry, angela) but w curly hes never rlly felt that way (all the time at least), hes found that so funny

•these r some touch starved FREAKS, i dont think yall understand that, for curly its more general but for pony its in a more romantical sense, but they r always touching each other (pause) like always, its more rare for them not to b

•they make so many bets w each other w the small money they have, but they just end up spending that money on the LOSER anyways, so TECHNICALLY theres no losing bets w these two but bc the other gets bragging rights THATS the real losing bit

•curly would totally b carrying pony if they played video games together, ponys shit at em, and curlys not GREAT at em typically but any time he can flex on pony and shiw off he’ll take it

•maybe this isnt 100% sweet, but im telling uuuuu curly wouldve totally been on ponys side that night, theyre both emotionally not mature so ofc they dont grasp whats rlly at hand and probably woulda got into deeper shit, but them sticking together regardless is very sweet to think about

•curly doesnt graduate from hs, not rlly a shocker, BUTTTT pony gives him the graduation ring!!! later down the line curly gets his ged w ponys help and they give him a new ring!!! curly wears both of em now, 3 if u wanna throw in a wedding ring

•ponys drawings r more serious and realistic while curlys is more cartoony and goofy, and that was also johnnys way of drawing, so in ponys sketchbook u can clearly tell who drew what especially bc ponys drawings take up the whole page and johnny/curlys r kinda just off to the side, theyre small but so silly and pony loves looking at them!!!

•when johnny died the pages pony drew on felt empty but then he got closer to curly and let him draw in the book a bit and it has that light again!! maybe not the same one, but its different and its them!!! new era if u will

[sneakyboythingz]

I wish people (dumb out of the bubble general audiences) stopped thinking that the coffin of Andy and LeyLey is supposed to be a "good" representation of incest abuse cuz ....no.....Its not, i doubt that was ever the intention.

The creator cleary just wanted to make an incest couple in her own way. Yes, It is romanticized and seen as good thing in the story (kinda??) but just because an creator adds problematic stuff in their INDIE game theyre not obligated to make it the pinacle of healthy representation just because It got popular, The same works for kinky dark romance for female audiences

Its a cartoony fictional incest relantioship aimed at a niche audience, Its not meant to be similar to reality. If they want a good representation of incest where the media shows how bad this thing can be in real life and teachs a good lesson about abusers then Go check other stuff, im sure theres a bunch of works that Would be good to share for everyone

Oh yeah, they will not do that, cuz they prefer to look cool on twitter talking about every popular thing that appears and seem like the bigger person just cuz they say "incest is bad" about a game that any healthy adult would know that Its not meant to be reality.

[highlifeboat]

Hey, Dad, since we on topic of Mascot Horror media, what's your opinions on some of those?

In general? I think mascot horror is great, and as much as I think people are kinda getting over it, I still find it enjoyable. In terms of specific ones... (I'm gonna list a lot so be ready to read a ramble.

Shipwrecked 64 is amazing from what I've seen. It's pretty... dark a gruesome, but the story is very compelling and I've been watching GTLive play through it and it's been really fun. First mascot horror to scare me in a hot minute.

Güby is a more recent one. Not a game, but like one of those mock-kids shows that features a cartoony/puppet protagonist. Gets to the spooks pretty quick but I love Güby's design and I'd say it's pretty unique. It's on YouTube if you wanna check it out.

BeeVeeKee's "Not Your Normal Kids Show" is also a good non-game mascot horror. They're mainly on TikTok but the series is on YouTube in a playlist and I recommend it.

Poppy Playtime is getting more interesting as time goes. The Cat Nap short was really cool and I'm still excited for the new chapter.

Garten of Banban is... something. I'll be real I have no clue what's happening in these games, I mainly use gameplay of them for background noise, but apparently they have been getting better so cudos to the developers of that game.

Hello Neighbour fucking sucks. It started out good and then it was like watching a train crash.

Speaking of trains, Choo Choo Charles is hilarious and amazing and I love him and I love Pickles. Like. SO much. She's best girl.

Amanda the Adventurer is amazing and I need to consume so much more content of that game. Also Wooly might be evil, but he's just a Little Guy so its okay. Him and Amanda are great I love them.

Slender is a classic Mascot Horror before FNAF. Maybe not scary by today's standards, but goddamn that scared the shit out of me at 7 years old.

Mr. TomatoS and Mrs. LemonS are interesting ones, weirdly full of lore complete with extra files and talking to each other and such.

UuuUUUhhh

DUCK SEAONS! Duck Season was a FANTASTIC game! A games based of Duck Hunt where the Dog tries to kill you and also might be your dad? FUCKING. BEAUTIFUL!

AND TATTLETAIL! DOESN ANYBODY REMEMBER TATTLETAIL BECAUSE THAT GAME WAS ACTUALLY REALLY FUCKING GOOD AND THEN IT JUST LIKE VANISHED FROM THE PLANET AAAAHHHHH

Anyway that's my opinions on some mascot horror games.

[bobbydagen24]

I feel this scene in Hollow Mind kinda made Belos less interesting by making it seem like he literally didn't care at all about Hunter.

as tbh I find it almost a touch disappointing because I feel it maybe does tow the line of making Belos a bit too much of a one note cartoon villain

( I know its somewhat funny me saying that when he literally is a kids cartoon villain but you get what I mean 😅😅)

I don't have a problem with Belos being so evil that he's willing to kill a kid he raised for defying him but I do kinda have a slight problem with him being so quick to do it and pretty much acting a little moustache twirling about it

like personally I do find it more interesting to think he does have a kind of twisted love for the Grimwalkers in a way ( I mean he'd have no real reason to model them after his brother if he didn't care )

so I would have preferred it if that one moment in Hollow Mind had been changed slightly because like I said I just feel it makes Belos a little bit less interesting by having him be so over the top villainous that he'd disregard someone he raised so quickly while practically laughing in their face

like maybe instead he could have actually tried manipulating Hunter back to him telling him that he only did these things for the greater good and that the old Golden Guards all turned to the dark side and made him kill them

and Belos tries to pull on the heartstrings by reminding him of everything he did for him growing up and saying that Hunter wouldn't betray him like al the others did would he? and when Hunter's still visibly hesitant to believe him

Then Belos after at least making some effort to not give up on him finally decides to kill Hunter and the episode plays out the same.

Like I said I just feel this scene of Belos is a little disappointing because it does make it seem like Belos literally doesn't give a crap about Hunter or any of the Grimwalkers

and that just makes him less interesting imo plus it kinda contradicts the whole point of him making them since the only logical reason he kept making clones of his Brother

is because he does care in a very twisted way hence why he kept trying to recreate his brother albeit a version of him that wouldn't betray him and his cause.

but having him so casually disregard Hunter with literally no care and without even trying to prevent his demise just seemed well cartoony for lack of a better word imo.

[elkaseltzer]

ive been looking at a lot of my art recently and ive been noticing im kinda dissatisfied with how it looks, and when i was in the middle of drawing the piece for ffm i finally realised what it was.

i went back and looked the harp scene piece i did for osas, the old selkie piece i did, the lucifer piece i did for trt, and then i looked at some of my more recent stuff, and i realised that a lot of my whimsy is gone.

i like having a kind of cartoony style. i like having "anime noses" and eyes. i like chunky line art and exaggerated proportions. i think that in my effort to improve my artistry skills, i began to force myself to draw more realistically. and thats not what i want!

anywho. this is to say that hopefully a lot of my drawing mojo will come back to me now that i remember how i enjoy to engage in creation. recently whenever a piece has started going awry ive just been giving up on it QWQ

also, i am putting all of the pieces that i mentioned below, to provide a better idea of what i meant if anyones interested

pieces i appreciate more:

never realised how much i draw lucifer this is kind of embarrassing anyways. i like my proportions here. for me, i think its mostly about how i do the faces. alastor in the OSAS piece there is one of the better ones ive done (which is ironic because lucifer in that one is one of the not as good ones. i shouldve redrawn him but i was lazy). drawing him is so hard for me, and i have no idea why. i can never get his energy right. the death of alastor piece is a little more on the line, but i think thats more the shading than anything (and the shading was done that way purposefully)

pieces i appreciate less:

its always fucking alastor. lucifer in these pieces? love him. greatness. my little pookie bear. but i just leaned to far into "real person proportion-ness" with al to properly enjoy these ones. they dont feel like him, and they arent drawn in a form that gives me joy. the dance one is mighty close, but falls just a little short

[rose022]

hi~ im rose! (among other names lol, ask for them or find them) welcome to my intro!

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[alloftheanxiety]

Playing with some Palworld designs

Because apparently translating cartoon critters into my less-cartoony style involves thinking about how they might actually function as real creatures. It's been fun but a little challenging.

Rayhound first because it's my favourite mount at the moment :D I've just gone with a more generic dog face but might look at some more slender snout breeds if I draw it again in the future. I think I need to make the legs a bit shorter too.

I imagined that the horn things on its face would be keratin kinda like rhino horns, and the tail would be hollow/light weight like those really long horned cows that use them for cooling in hot climates??

LOTS of chillet because it's a friend's favourite mount and I've been enjoying experimenting with the design. I used an otter to base the body and a single head design on, but then settled on using a seal for a more rounded head/face in the end. I imagine them to have dense water resistant fur like either of those critters. Had a ball with the paws, took some liberties adding fluff in places. Haven't thought much about the tufty things on the cheeks- are they purely fur or a bit of flesh/organs??

Only done a brief look at daedream. It was surprisingly easy? I combined rabbit and goat/sheep traits. I'll probably play with some solid hooves like on horses later to see how that looks, but I quite like the split hooves. LOVE drawing long flowy hair~

Aaand a bonus digital sketch because the way players ride chillet is one of the dumbest, most unstable looking things I've ever seen 😂

[pecha-smoothie]

//btw when arguing about what pokemon are ugly or not with pecha do remember that like. they are treated kinda like actual organisms and would appear. like. realistic in her canon? like beedrill is cute when its cartoony. now imagine that child sized wasp with an extra set of stingers realistically. like real realistically. it is completely reasonable for someone to find that kinda disgusting or scary. because it is a child sized wasp.

//not saying her being like oh dont interact if your pokemon are UGLY is fair im just saying keep in mind that a pokemon that is cute when cartoony would likely be kinda unsettling when realistic

[sonknuxadow]

when it comes to determining whether or not something is ai generated ive seen people unironically look at anime and cartoony style art and go "look at this small anatomy mistake that means its ai generated" or "look the shading here isnt 100 percent accurate to how it would look irl no real person would color like this" and its like . well first of all expecting perfect realism out of a style thats inherently unrealistic looking is kinda ridiculous but also . man idk how to tell you this but not everyone is able to (or even wants to) draw things exactly how they look irl. sometimes people just draw like that . details like the ones i mentioned CAN be red flags something was ai generated but i dont think thats the most reliable method to tell with everything

[nugulover69]

I too am a member of the Taiya-hater club and every episode I question why I'm not dropping this show until they show me scraps of Mira or Agent Shirabe or the Three Idiots, but I think from now on I'll be fastforwarding through new eps just for them. My only sentai are Zenkai and halfway through Donbros so being forced to watch Boonboom Red as the main character is like beibg fed cardboard after a pizza.

Oh man. if your only sentai experience is zenkai and donbros, two very experimental and Not A Typical Sentai sentais, yeah boonboom must hit a real sour note since its a return to basics lol

I personally wouldn't call it bad so far, a solid B+ imo, but Taiya is def the weakest character, and his blandness is only more evident whenever an episode is focused on him

I can suggest some good sentais that are more typical in structure for you to watch in the future:

Gokaiger- the core team is phenomenal here, bursting with personality and incredible chemistry between each of them. this IS an anniversary sentai, meaning past rangers are constantly showing up to be apart of the plot, but you do NOT need to have seen their shows to get the gist and have a fun time. you're following the gokaigers and their character arcs are always the main focus. plus they're aliens (space pirates even) that don't know jackshit abt Earth, so you and them are on the same level of knowledge lol

Idk why folks don't recommend this as a starter sentai more often. it was my first ever sentai and I picked the next sentais I watched based on how entertained I was by a past characters appearance. its how I watched go-onger and carranger (and liveman but I don't wanna talk abt that)

Also Marvelous is best red. this is an objective fact we as a community all agree on, even if he's not our own personal favorite red

Speaking of go-on

Go-onger- the canon, main strength of this team is their stupidity. VERY CARTOONY, heavy on hijinks, light on serious plot (it was written by a veteran kids anime writer and boy can you tell). if you like loud genki kinda assholeish shonen protags than you'll love the red Sosuke. if you don't...perhaps skip this one lol. Sosuke is a biiiig make or break of someone's enjoyment of go-on. the villains are great tho, very team rocket, kinda like the Sanseaters in boonboom

(and its a much better car sentai. Speedor is there all the time. boonboom only has Speedor for one episode. I rest my case)

Zyuohger- if you need an animal sentai under your belt, this is the best one. the red, Yamato, does get more focus than the rest of the team (many more power ups as well) but he's a likeable character played by a guy who can actually act. GREAT VILLAINS, they evolve over time as well and I can't say much w/o spoiling things, but I'll just say Genis caused his own demise

Also I haven't seen donbros but I know the donbros sixth is deranged, so if you need more deranged sixths in your life you should watch zyuoh for Misao

Gekiranger- if you really love serialized story telling and characters growing and changing and all that, I cannot recommend geki enough. in a lot of sentai, the weapons are usually just found or given, which isn't inherently a bad thing but I can see why someone wouldn't care for that. every weapon and power up the gekis get is always earned thru them overcoming some obstacle, literal or figurative, so its that much more rewarding when the new Marketable Touy is used

Also they're kung fu fighting cats. did I mention they're kung fu fighting cats. the red was raised in the woods and literally acts like a feral animal most of the time. he does mellow out over the course of the show, but honestly if someone doesn't like Jan from the jump I don't trust them (he has CRAZY yaois with the main villain Leo btw)

[ecto-hazard]

how do you have so few homestuck posts on your blog but your art style is so recognizably hs inspired that it seems like it was your staple for at least a few years

so if i wanted to actually analyze what probably happened and not get too caught up in crying about this statement i think it kinda went like this:

my childhood was massively anime inspired so for the longest time i drew shit in a sort of anime lookin way even if it wasn't anime. here's an example of some shitass lego movie art from like 2014 where that's very painfully evident. these are fucking lego guys. i made them into shit anime boys. im sorry

around the time i started college (2018ish) wouldve been when my artstyle started adapting away from anime because I really wasn't watching any anymore and i was wanting to develop a less anime-centric style. thigns became a lot more cartoony because major inspirations at the time wouldve been things like steven universe and other cartoons. but this is also when i first read homestuck so i could see how that mightve influenced things

i never really participated in the homestuck fandom at the time because i was focusing on college and didnt really post about my hyperfixations that much. plus at that point, yknow, it had the reputation of being homestuck. so i just never really talked about it outside of talking to my personal friendgroup

by the time i started posting stuff again, i had moved onto the osc and camp communities and focused on that instead. i do still like homestuck (its been a long ass time since ive tried to comprehend what the plot was though). so the answer seems like i was just in college and probably didnt feel confident enough to post it

of course none of that matters cause i know the real answer is I JUST WEAR GLASSES IRL MAN I DRAW MYSELF WITH GLASSES NOT EVERYONE WITH GLASSES IS HOMESTUCK /j

[tyran-the-tyranical]

HELLO

This is just an update post on a little (it's so not little) comic I'm working on rn. (The updates are at the bottom (ง •_•)ง)

OKAY, for starters this is a kinda scrapped first ver of the first few pages. It's scrapped because it was just a test/thumbnailing for how I want the first pages to be, but I salvaged some things in it.

It's chaotic but it wasn't meant to be the serious storyboard, especially since there's very little references for inside the keep so I'm going to cut those early scenes so it just cuts to when she arrives at the door. The chess opening is cut as well, EXCEPT, I'm planning on doing chapter covers and I want to keep the two pawns on the chessboard as the chapter cover for the first chapter.

Okay...

This is also chaotic but these are just the closest designs I've been happy with for the Tarnished, these are not the first times I've designed her, actually her design has changed SO much, originally she's just a character in my own story but I use her for a lot of fan stuff, like BG3 and etc, so I just used her for the elden ring fic too lol.

This was an old ver of her planned design, don't look at her ass, ignore it.

(This was actually a scrapped ver of the drawing below)

Anyway, I didn't like it. There was also another design...That I shall not name nor show (Its ugly asf, I called the file burn with fire)

There was also this design, which wasn't bad but wasn't what I was looking for. Tbh her design still needs work but I'm happy with how it looks now, it just needs a few more tweaks.

This is actually what she looked like in the early sketches of her more finished design, I fixed her proportions and switched the armor, at this point I was trying to find an art style more suited for a comic and also her herself. I'm very stuck between either anime/cartoony and realism and I want the comic to be semi-realism, and my biggest issue is I always make the eyes too big lol.

Like this was the closest I've gotten to the design I want for the comic but it's too realistic and detailed so I need to simplify it alot.

Now, I want to make it clear, I want this comic to really be/look good, I've made comics in the past now and again but they're never too crazy, but if I can get chapter one done, I'll be happy, but yknow as it stands it's still in like pre-production where I'm trying to plan things out, so probably not this year 〒▽〒

Though I'd really like to get the comic before Act 3 since that act is gonna have a lot of payoffs, and I don't want the fic to spoil something really good that the comic hasn't got to yet, and the comic has a lot to catch up to, but I'm also planning on cutting things or condensing them down since act 1 kinda meanders in the ruins of Rauh and I could so cut a lot of that down.

I've been very reluctant to describe the Tarnished bc even though I have a backstory for her and a character arc planned, she's s nameless Tarnished and I always feel like people would rather her be a blank slate, undescribed, especially in the fic, but in the comic that's unavoidable so therefore not an issue, but if anyone is genuinely interested in what she looks like, the concept art is basically that, tho it's not exactly finished or complete, I'll update again once I've done it tho!

And another wip of their designs, not entirely finished but just there :D the colors still need work

Edit: here’s a heavily censored version of the first ten storyboard pages (it’s obviously not much but at least the first few pages are completely planned now 🥲) rlly into color scripting atm

(PSSST, there are actually two other finished designs of her, one from the first day she was in the lands between and one for the future/ending, there is supposed to be another one for her real past but I haven't designed it yet etc, I can't show you either bc spoilers, but remember when I said the helm motif thing will come back? yes, but funnily enough her early design for the past scares me more than her other ones, ok maybe scares is a bit of an exaggeration, but especially with how she was before she OK I'll shut up now )

(Another lil secret wip for the meantime too...I had to remove his scoliosis 😔) it's all just sketches but we're getting somewhere 👁👁

Edit: he may not look like this exactly in the end, too round, not angular enough 👁👁

[insufferablemod]

your art style is so fucking sick i love the way your shapes are defined,,, is your hand still injured? because honestly the brand is fucking impeccable either way. the shakiness really gives it emotion and almost like. god. its just so... i want to study it so bad.

do you have anything in specific that really inspired the way you developed your shapes and the rest of it?? i keep saying shapes and its mad vague but i hope you know what i mean

like how you decide what lines should go where to define what, i guess.

enuff yappin tho. point is. ur shit is HYPE.

aaa thank youuuuu :')c <3 hand is sadly still injured 😎💀 have started drawing a bit with it tho! just gotta be careful with it(<-was not careful with it)

And agdhd dont worry, shape is actually the perfect word to describe it! So the way I approach things is well, shapes lol Literally, I try if I can to stick in as many solid shapes as I can They help keep things clean n uncluttered(which I am trying 2 get better at) and can help make things feel more solid I try and break down what I'm drawing into the most basic 3d shapes I can in my head without going 2 abstract or cartoony And then it's just kinda tracing those shapes in ur mind down 2 the page? I think this also helps with getting more like, volume/depth in, since basic shapes r easier to imagine in 3d then like, actual real life human anatomy i like to think of it kinda like sculpting, you start with simple big shapes and then slowly chip away n add more detail where necessary Asaro heads r a great recourse for this kinda stuff n theres some good ones u can just find online! actually, here are 2 link link (i actually gotta try n use these more,, u_u(oh shit just googled n theres actually also asaros bodies, i gotta check those out 2 lol)) Then it's just finding a good balance of curved and straight shapes, the ratio of which can change a lot depending on the vibe ur going for or character ur drawing

scribbled over some of my art 2 try n show what i mean better lol

sorry for the late response! hope any of that made sense!