#*design notes

[qadmonster]

Ookaboo backwards is Oobakoo which has Baku in it. It is sort of like a Baku. He was kinda inspired by Koosalagoopagoop from Dexter's Lab:

Ko-fi Dooble:

"A monster that eats other monsters, but is kind to children"

Ookaboo

[brightgoat]

Some notes (aka yapping) on why these two look the way they do in standverse, enjoy

[todays-xkcd]

Listen, you're very cute, but if you rearrange the alphabet to put U and I together it will RUIN the spacing!

Alphabet Notes [Explained]

[skidcd-megamix]

A few notes since jealous rage mode isn’t drawn (cuz I’m tired rnn loll)

Paracelsus’s mask will get ripped off (and so will his face) and his body starts to melt

Weapons are formed from the bones within the stitches area so he has to consume a lotta calcium b4 battle

He will break free from the chain due to newfound strength

[that-guy-sleepy-miles]

Red King Design Notes

I got a single request to explain Red King's design, so I'm going feral! This will have notes based on AU lore (events), 'lore' (character relationships), and things I noticed in the show! (This one is for you, @daikon-dimes <3)

Let's start from the top and move down!

‎Red King's horns!

Firstly, her "Proud Horns"! The color is a deep-red version of DBK's old horn color, and the shape is based on Princess Iron Fan's bull-horn hairstyle!

And then her "Transportation Horns". These are a slightly darker color than the Proud Horns and their shape is based on PIF's hair and also vaguely based on DBK's horns.

That actually brings us to...

Bangs like Mama and Red King's tiara!

Okay, horn lore:

Red King had eaten a monk and then took a killer fucking nap—like she CONKED OUT—and she woke up with big ol bull horns (magical power expression* has to go somewhere, and she's not really using it or feeling anything right then) and she was like "oh, dude, what the fuck", and then freaks out because she can't balance herself anymore

After being freaked out for a while, she demanded that the nearest bull clone get her a mirror.

She looks at herself in the mirror (she's learned how to balance at this point, good for her), she touches her horns, and she goes,

"Heh. Like Mother's hair."

And, even though she and her mother are in the middle of essentially a Cold War, she finds her mother's old tiara and puts her hair around her horns like her mom's… decorative hairstyle? whatever we'd call that. like the way her mom serves massive cunt 25/8—because she loves her mom more than anything else. (No matter how much of a raging ******* PIF is being. God, why is she like that sometimes???)

(The Eternal Fire design has sidebangs that are reminiscent of PIF's but more silky and flowy.)

Bull Fam Huadian and Bindi

The Eternal Slumber design has a huadian (a form of traditional Chinese ornamental forehead makeup, which is located between the eyebrows and sometimes on the cheeks, the temples, and the dimples) shaped like the Demon Bull family crest instead of the traditional flower petals. This is because of the idea that Red Son's "red dot" is a huadian, which I've seen floating around quite a bit, but I'm 99% sure it's a bindi.

It's in the right spot for a bindi and the wrong spot for a huadian, it looks like a bindi and doesn't look like a huadian—it's a bindi. I don't know if this is still going on (people thinking it's a huadian/saying it's a huadian/drawing it as a huadian), but it's a bindi. It's a bindi guys.

(Because of Red Son's tendency for overly expressive downturned eyebrows and the inconsistency of hand-drawn animation, it's hard to tell, but the "red dot" is seemingly intended to be slightly above and between his eyebrows, not high above on his forehead. You can tell on screenshots where it's on his forehead that it's in the wrong spot, it's actually really fun.)

Also, the people on the wiki call it a "forehead dot" and I'm so...

Anyway, in her Eternal Fire design, Red King's bindi returns! This is because her time with MK has "reignited her inferno", and she is returning to herself! With her bindi! Welcome back, pookie bear!!!

and on the note of her "reigniting her inferno", her Eternal Fire design has the same eyebrow makeup as the Red Son minifig!

Her Samadhi Ring

In the Red King AU, Red Son is allowed to keep his/her ring of Samadhi for a number of reasons. Importantly, DBK and PIF let Red Son their ring because it is their power—Red Son was born with the Samadhi Fire, and it's an expression of their power. They are a family obsessed with power for a good while, so in the Red King AU, DBK and PIF felt it cruel to strip their only child of their power and of the remainder of it. The thought also was that, as the creator of the fire, Red Son would have the most incentive to keep the ring safe. They'd certainly never lose it, like some people.

(Fun fact, this means that DBK's nose ring is the other way around like it was in his younger years. That's just a really silly detail, but like... they match <3)

Red King's Hair Highlights (and Their Relation to Red Son’s Magic Expression and the Samadhi Fire)

(By the way, the Eternal Slumber design has more chaotic shines because her hair isn't brushed, and the Eternal Fire design has more uniform/put-together shines because her hair is being taken care of.)

Red King has shiny hair, and that's not just to look cool. To explain why, I had to make a giant post about the LEGO Monkie Kid Magic System. I go in-depth about Red Son at the end of that post, but I'll give a TLDR here:

Red Son has a wholly unique form of expressing magic among demons, gods, dragons, descendants, reincarnations, and everything in-between (the in-between being Red Son himself, MK, Wukong, and Macaque [Red Son is half-god, half-demon; MK was intended to be a mystic monkey but got his genetics messed with; Wukong and Macaque are mystic monkeys outside of any of the 10 species, they just need to be noted here [Their magic is completely conventional, they're just crazy strong]). His body, and specifically his hair, is directly connected to his magic in a way that's different from other characters for reasons we can only speculate.

Because Red King is stronger than Red Son (and has a link to the Samadhi Fire), she has many large hair highlights! Generally, they're condensed into one or two large shapes, but smaller highlights around a large shape are also acceptable. :]

Outfits

Eternal Slumber wears zhong yi (middle clothes), a longer version of Red Son's robe from season 3, and Red Son's sandals from season 3. (I call those house shoes but the model sheet says sandals.)

Zhong yi were worn under normal clothing in Hanfu, and often worn to bed. Some posts about zhong yi: 1, 2, 3. Because Red King is... well... sleeping often but in a regal way, she wears zhong yi instead of modern sleepwear. Her robe is also longer to evoke the fact that it is a robe and she is a king.

Eternal Fire wears a sleeveless version of Red Son's coat with a gold trim. This gold trim is actually because of something on Red Son's page on the Monkie Kid Wiki! Okay, so, I'm so autistic that part of my LMK Special Interest (it's been 4 years, so this is officially a special interest) actually extends to the Wiki... and on Red Son's Wiki page, there is something so fun!!

On Red Son's Minifigure–show comparison, the screenshot used to compare contains a coloring error! Red Son's collar is actually his skin tone! And I LOVE THAT. NOBODY TELL THEM. IF YOU ARE A WIKI EDITOR AND YOU'RE READING THIS, DON'T FIX IT!!!

I love coloring errors and I love mistakes. Not only is there the original coloring error (the mark of a human being; someone worked on this scene and they made a mistake and now we can see it and see them! It's as if their memory is saying hello, and that's why I love coloring errors), but someone else missed it, and now it has been used to represent this character's design as a whole (a SECOND human being!! Hello!! You've been here, and you didn't catch something, and now I'll always remember you were here!).

And that's why I don't want it to be fixed. I know it should be fixed, and I know the Wiki is a source of knowledge, but I also just... love people so much... and I decided to remember the coloring error by giving Red King's coat a gold trim. <3 (I was going to keep it to the collar like the coloring error, but it didn't look good.)

Other notes:

She's wearing armbands like she did when she was a baby because the Eternal Fire design is her "returning to herself."

The ballroom gloves are just sexy like that. Make MK go Looney Tunes. (And the wristbands are for the same purpose.)

S H A N T S

Uhhh that's it! Thank you!! <3 <3 <3 <3!!

[trans-jon-rights]

There's a small detail I love to put on my Jon design, and it's so insignificant but I have to.

In MAG 81, we're told Jon has prematurely grey hair, enough for people to assume he's older than he really is. Well, I used to make his hair outright white instead of grey (idk why, mostly bad screen configuration that i never corrected after). Than I thought about it a bit, and adapted the idea :

During uni, and until he was hired in the Archives, Jon's grey hair are that, just grey. But once he is the Archivist, they start to be gradually whiter, until there is just white and brown. Why ? Because if the Web's influence.

The originally grey hair become white to look like spider silk.

And after everything, in Somewhere Else, free of the Fears, his hair slowly reverts back to grey.

[interlockingpatches]

Cathedral Radio. Interlocking / double filet crochet. #3 (tan) and #10 (black) cotton crochet thread, 2.75mm hook.

I did this in a marathon session yesterday, which I wouldn't exactly recommend! That gauge is also not perfect. Doing it again, I would either size down for a stiffer fabric or size up for smoother lines and more "relaxed" fill areas, but this would look perfectly nice with proper blocking and/or hanging rods.

Post stitches forming the outlines around the speaker holes make a really nice recessed texture, though I wouldn't use them again on the leftmost edge, where they just make things muddy.

[vampiresi]

If anyone was interested, here are some of my design headcanons for Odysseus and Eurylochus, specifically in my luck runs out animatic!

More in depth thoughts under the cut:

For both, I dressed them in blue since Ithaca is a port city, so I imagine them in colors to represent that aspect, having them wear similar colors that represent their homeland.

Eurylochus, as the stern second in command, I imagine him as presenting himself more as a soldier than as a sailor, so his attire is a lot more like armor. His toga is also longer and has a bit more cloth than Odysseus's, but his is well worn and the dye is getting bleached out. His sandles are also taller, to mimic greeves! And he has a single paldrin, since Jorge mentioned he had a single shoulder pad (I stylized it less like Cloud's to look more Grecian) : > I decided to make Eurylochus's features rounder, both bc of his VA and because I wanted him to look a little more sympathetic, especially in this song. That's the same reason I made his eyes big and round, and colored the whites in at some points. It also made it easier to read his horror when Odysseus chastises him.

As for Odysseus, his attire is a lot more comfortable. The war is over! They're going home! Also, he's not trying to think about the war anymore,, so he's dressed down. He has a half cape, half poncho both to evoke royalty and travel wear. His fabrics are also a lot brighter than Eurylochus, he's the king! He can have more expensive stuff. But honestly it's still pretty plain, they are coming home from a very long campaign. And of course, around his left wrist is Polites's headband (taken shamelessly from other artists, but especially WolfytheWitch). I also wanted to show my Odysseus has wavy hair, its just WET. He's also has some stress lines and age marks under his eyes. Wonder why THAT could be...

Bonus Calypso sketch, since I love her and I wanted to see how I could style her hair~

[camthecatchameleon]

cranking the image description out for this one boys

lineups of the Crews from the two Legends of Avantris campaigns I’ve actually listened to with consistency (still not finished with EoM but I’m on 21 so I’m getting there dont worry) + artists notes

Highly suggested that you scroll below the cut for this. (my handwriting is not the best + its small + some hidden design notes too :eyes: )

Image 1: Carnivalé LeCroux (not drawn to scale lmao)

(from left to right)

Hootsie: least fun to draw (Boring shapes) (draw the least). Typically I imagine her as a horned owl owlbear so her canon “eyebrows” flatten out and connect to her neck. I just think it gives her a nice silhouette. Frost: least fun to draw (cat). I’ve been drawing him with Chinese/vaguely East Asian-inspired robes because he’s from the mountail of Yulong and you can’t just give me a place called “Yulong” and expect me NOT to go ham on the east asian inspiriation. (east asian artist here.) Gricko: don’t draw nearly enough, most fun to draw (hair). I gave him a permanent cowlick on his bangs and I think the shapes are nice. Chunks ripped out of his ears are from Hootsie when she was younger and couldn’t control her strength. Kremy: most fun to draw (lizord), draw the most, did the most reference study for. I may love to draw lizards but crocodylidae are so uniquely shaped. Scrolling back through my ouaw posts and you can see I am still getting used to it. Torbek: most inconsistent, stupid machinery doesn’t make sense. The shape of his canisters and the collar with a keyhole both are from the first time I drew him, which was without a reference, and they just. Stuck. Gideon: Big boob indulgence, stupid machinery doesn’t make sense. Drawing him with awkwardly long hair, post-trauma fat, and smile lines is my favorite passtime. His marriage rings are on a necklace because they get in the way of punching clowns. Twig (pre-death): draw the least (can’t figure out her shapes). Drawing her fractured glasses and refracted eye is my favorite time.

Image 2: Witchhunters!! (I think my headcanon height difference is funny)

Shortest to tallest (briggsy and farryn are the same height):

Briggsy: Still figuring out how to depict distinction from Kremy (gator). So far i’ve got more spikes and a thicker neck and thats about it. I’m working on it. Farryn: fun shapes! skinny L. Ever since learning how to draw body fat I’ve never gone back its actually so hard to draw skin-and-bones skinny people now. Marius: least consistent (can’t decide how curly her hair is), armor L. Yes I headcanon he/she marius do you have a problem with that? Bat-like ears because heehoo. I just realized the symbol I drew on his chestplate looks like the Horde symbol from she-ra FUCK can you tell I don’t look at references? Jericho: most fun to draw!!! (draw the most). I like to draw virgil!jericho with four-pointed-star slits instead of just orbs with pupils because I think shapes are fun. Lethica: drew her wrong for WAY too long. I hadn’t paid enough attention to her actual ref and covered up her chest initially I’m so sorry queen. shes so pretty though. Although I do think its infinitely funny to headcanon that she actually looks pretty average. Tall women my beloved. Yorgrim: least drawn, Beard + Big indulgence. No seriously I’ve only drawn him twice. Hes awesome though soft rectangular shapes ftw.

[creaman]

Hello! Just want to say that I absolutely adore your designs for Jon, Edward, and Jervis! They're so detailed and extra. I love them sm. Up in the top two favorite designs. My favorite is definitely Jervis. Which is funny, because in just about every version he's my least favorite of the three. His design is just so fun and goofy and him. It's amazing. They all are.

Anyways that's it. Byeeee<33

Oh? Do you now? Well I’m glad you think so because now you’re getting

Design Notes — Riddler | Scarecrow | Hatter

I drafted up some rogue designs last year, actually. They’ve mostly evolved from those. Content warning for horrific old art.

The McGriddler — Ah, a grown man with the strength of a baby! I’ve actually had this… horrendous peacock concept in my brain since 2022, back when my Riddler design was a dirty blonde/brunette. I hated him. He had the costume, but not the flair. Not to mention the generic facial structure.

Luckily, New Riddler is now an ostentatiously dressed vain attention whore! Highly fashionable, extensive wardrobe (def designing more outfits for him) and a possible mid-life crisis arc where he just wears a bathrobe and wifebeater for a month straight.

And listen, I’m not much of a writer, but there are notes on his personality.

Not great ones, though.

And rather than his ambiguous forensics/science job, he now works in I.T. Or rather, worked in I.T. (fired for patronising tech support customers)

For Jon — He’s always had black eyes with orange ringed pupils (initially blue) from the fear toxins. Drafted him up in high school because I was coping.

I’ve always intended to give him multiple costume designs. With narrative purposes. He redesigns himself. Ofc he couldn’t be satisfied with one thing, no, he has winter, summer, Witch Doctor, stealth etc. costumes on the way.

The initial design was trying to do too much — Patches, stitches, belt straps, arm warmers, utility belts, boots. Clutter. (Does NOT help that I can hardly decipher my old sketches.)

So, we just remove the overtly slutty components from the main design—

—And put them in a seperate campier Scarecrow design that I use as a Halloween-sona.

Silly Crazy Zonka Wonka — I think I was looking at pics of the Depp Hatter for the old design, which. May explain some things.

Acute observation! They look nothing alike. So I’ve kept absolutely nothing from the initial design except for the choppy wavy hairstyle.

Completely different colour scheme. Subbed out the TF2 Ghastly Gibus for the Towering Pillar of Hats. (Because ofc The Hatter would have something from the funny Hat FPS, no?) Shorter. Feebler. Every sickness on the planet. Congratulations! Mercury poisoning.

The initial concept for the redesign was to have a sort of reversible coat with his Arkham outfit on one side, and Rogue outfit on the other. You can see I just opted for him to wear a combination of both.

[mewguca]

moonmoon puppet design notes

wanted her to look kinda doll-like but still robot-y too idk. also the logo idea is bc i like to imagine certain political factions (houses) had design trends they favored and liked to show off their work

I like to imagine moon and sigs were made around the same time but they had different designers so they look different

(rather than generation trends I like to think of puppet designs as a more individualized form of artistic expression by their creators)

and srry fp idk what im doing with you i should base your outfit on some kinda moth too but i have no ideas aside from "fp has more jewelry bc he was designed to be more of a deific, respected figure than a friendly doll-like one"

though their body types are also just mostly based on myself and my irl younger sibling because that is FUN and they remind me of fp a lot

(they have not killed me dont worry,)

[gee0man]

Continuing the Solstice Rain #mecha art done for Lancer RPG.  Before it was identified, Union boots on the ground called the Vestan armored bruiser that led their formations the Bullfrog. A combo of its shield and leg mounted hover jets make it a nasty close range bully.

The Bullfrog belongs to the Vestan Sovereignty, an antagonistic faction in the Solstice rain supplement. They’re a familiar story. An authoritarian nation on the verge of loosening up only for the militant reactionaries to tighten their grip again. Union’s arrival on Cressidium serves as the perfect catalyst to reignite old dreams of conquest. 

Every GM needs its Zaku to be locked in eternal struggle with. I imagine in universe, armchair generals and rivet counters will argue about the respective qualities of the [G] Type Everest and Bullfrog during the Cressidium conflict for years to come.

I designed the Bullfrog in concert with my Everest variant. Whereas I looked at Gundam and Armored Core for the [G] Type, I prayed at the altar of Kazuhisa Kondo for the Bullfrog. I have always wanted to design a Kondo-inspired absolute unit.

Giant armored skirt and shoulders to give it a brutish, imposing physical profile. These types of chunky forms give it both a sense of mass but also reflect the Vestan’s desire to punish and impose its will on others. It’s not merely enough to occupy the space, it must make everyone around it uncomfortable and vulnerable. Again, a bully.

[carouselunique]

What’s with the little patches of green and purple on Ditzy? At first I thought it was a tie, but no that’s part of her design. None of the other Pegasi have this detail, their feathers seem to match their color palette. So why Ditzy?

(Genuinely asking btw, sorry if I sound rude! 😅)

Not rude at all! It’s a bit of pigeon fluff! If you notice gray pigeons have a band of green and purple shiny feathers around their neck/chest area, some Pegasi have special traits - if you look at Dinky, who has tail feathers, she has white tips (the color comes from her father). Sky Chime has white striping on her tail feathers and a few white speckles on her chest feathers and while Sunny Rays doesn’t have specific markings her chest is fluffy and if she stays on the sun too long she gets feather freckles.

It’s just a fun way to make them more bird like - and it gives me the nickname Blueblood calls Ditzy - Pidge (aka Pigeon).

[aviculor]

Yes, after months of struggling against myself, using my middle finger instead of my index finger, even buying a computer mouse to sidestep using my left hand altogether, I've finished a new fakemon. "New" fakemon because it's a revamp of a concept I first made in 2009.

I had changed its design somewhat when the time came to sprite it, due to being unable to draw the scope lens with crosshairs on that scale.

Recently....well, "recently" as in last year, I decided to revive it as part of a mythical trio with a new design. I had been collecting ideas and coming up with a novel way to implement them. Then gout began to claim my hand, which forced me into retirement because it ruined the technique I had honed for well over a decade.

It's a snipe. As in the wading bird, and as in the fictional creature the hunting of which is a fool's errand. As well as being a sniper, creating a double pun on "snipe hunt". Additionally, its camouflage pants resemble a bird nest, thus creating a sniper's nest. Physically, it has a loose resemblance to a Shy Guy or Snifit from the Mario series, as well as Yoyo Dodo from Looney Tunes. I still couldn't give it crosshair eyes, but I prefer the night vision goggles I came up with.

[magewolf-the-artist]

Design notes, hell yeah!

Note: If you want to make fanart (if you do I will in fact marry you platonically and be forever grateful) you don't have to follow this, this is just how I draw these guys

[milkydraws8]

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