#character re-design

[talesofedo]

My re-design of Mizu, the protagonist of Blue Eye Samurai.

The original series design for Mizu gives her a couple of expensive accessories, specifically her traveling cloak and her eyeglasses. (And yes, I realize she is supposed to have made her own eyeglass frames, but Japanese manufacture of glass was still new at that time and the lenses themselves would likely have been expensive.)

I kept the travel cloak design, but as many surviving originals are made from striped fabric, I chose to go with that.

She's wearing tattsuke bakama, rather than having separate, removable kyahan (gaiters). This was a really common style for traveling, and since Blue Eye Samurai takes place in the 1650s, I went with a contrasting, rather than matching, waist tie. That style of contrasting colors would have been a bit more of an old fashioned look at the time already.

She's wearing straw waraji instead of the black sandals she has in the series, and warajigake tabi, tabi with reinforcements in the toe split and the front of the foot that made them more durable for walking long distances.

I switched the short, samue-like jacket she's wearing in the series for an actual kimono, but used the water pattern of the fabric she is using as an obi in the series as the pattern for her kimono.

Since she's trying to pass for a ronin on her travels, I switched her hat for a sandogasa, which was a common design for traveling, and gave her a short sword in addition to her meteoric iron sword. (The lack of samurai carrying two swords in the series drove me absolutely bonkers.) I kept the un-wrapped rayskin design of her tsuka, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. 😅

I also changed the design of her eyeglasses to one that was common during the Edo period, using string instead of folding temples. The eyeglass design I'm using here is from the oldest known pair in Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu's reading glasses, but that same style was worn right up until the introduction of modern western eyeglasses at the end of the Edo period.

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

I’ve had this in my sketchbook for months, so have a Gazzy and Angel.

[dave-windett]

A re-imagining of Johnni Thunder for a long forgotten internet project.

[purple-paws]

Holy cow, it’s been a while since I’ve seen these guys. :)

Finally getting started on some height charts / finalized designs for my Wadanohara fan comic, Story of the Sea Witch! (For more details on the project, please click this link!)

[madisonthecat]

I started a series where I re-design people's characters. It was a hell of a lot fun (expect for the part my camera died) but I hope to do more of these. Feel free to send me a character you want me to re-design. Just tag/feature me and use the tag "character re-design"

[fancy-fandoms-crew]

UPDATE

I got some of my characters updated with new designs. :) You can check them over -> HERE <- I still need to make some designs for few of the, though. :U

-Mun

[theclairewitchprojectcomic]

Working on some possible re-designs now that I’ve picked this comic back up. I’m not totally sure which version I’m going with (13yo Claire, 17yo Claire, or 26yo Claire) but this one is for the original, younger Claire.

[scrapperpileup]

NEW CONCEPT : MECHANIST TORQUE.

Yup, different name now.

So, imagine this. 

A mechanic that cannot fire the guns he fixes. He's great at fixing them, not firing them. Pretty damn weird, but hey, he's gotta eat SOMEHOW.

He's more like the loot-the-shit then fix with scrap metal.

And he's still an idiot.

[arr-jim-lad]

OLD CHARACTER RE-DESIGNS

Zita

I am pretty sure that this is how Zita was supposed to look from the beginning, save for the glowing nose, I added that now. she was supposed to be a large stocky creature, but drawing wolves all my childhood I had some problems with the stocky part

Madonna

A hellhound. Not really much change there, save for her now having a bat nose.

Singsong

I actually had a whole species reference for these guys but I can't find it anywhere. I know there was something important about their coloured tails, but I can't remember what it was, so I might as well ignore the whole original concept and turn it into a more dinosaur-ish and natural-coloured little thing.

Thing-o

Again not much change, save for me playing around with his features a bit. His old design also has wings, but when they are folded they are actually pressed close to the body, looking like wing markings.

I am actually really pleased with how these came out. Doubt I'll be using them for anything, but I'm glad I can turn my old designs into better ones, it feels good having this ability

I really love character design

[andryke]

[andryke]

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