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moraymoth · 5 months ago

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DREAMSLEEP SPECIES (VERY LONG)

A faded vampire is often confused as a human, they can be considered human in some places however they are still a type of vampire. They actually prefer raw or medium-cooked meat of any kind; they never have a knack for blood. They can also be seen in farms, though rare.

Vampires

~Faded Vampire (A demon/vampire mix-ish) ?

~Redstone Vampire Dominat

A red-stone vampire varys with warm colors; rarely any cool colors on their palette. They have a hard time understanding social cues, but have lots of love to give. Oftenly, they have big sharp fangs to show off with long, fluent elf-ears.

A problem with the redstone vampires is that they are nearly extinct, and tend to be used for stuff they shouldn't be. Their fangs are commonly sold in markets in the Crimsonic Ruby Kingdom.

They don’t usually have brain and brawn together, but instead one; not both. One redstone vampire could have the brawn, the other would have the brain. It cannot be a double-sided thing.

A common place to find them is Silverplain Village, or Cherrytown. Other Times, but rarely, in the Cursed Settlement.

~Riverlake Vampire Recessive

A riverlake vampire is unique to their own species; they can turn into water, or control water. It completely depends on the vampire itself and what it wants to get into. The power isn’t given, it’s learned. You cannot learn two or it ruins the entire balance. They have a more cool colortone and their shapes of eyes are distinct, they have diamond or square eyes. They have less-pointed ears and can retract their fangs.

They have the smarts, a lot of it; they can plan 6 steps ahead from said person; though some can be on the more not-so-bright-side.

Oftenly found in Hillside Swamp, Rickety Lush Ponds or Azure Lagoon.

~Noir Vampire Recessive

A Noir Vampire is one of the few dark-magic users that can be seen in the Dreamsleep map. They usually have black or gray inside of their eyes with round or square pupils. Their colors are usually darker, with black, grays, whites, pales; monochromatic. The thing that sticks to their species is they can blend, control, or make shadows to their own demand. They can have two of them, but not all three. All three would be seen as a threat and killed on the spot. Noir vampires are feared. They have shorter, but sharper ears and their fangs are more rounded.

They can be found in: CherryTown/CherryTown Farm, Sakura Palace

~Scorpio/Redstone Mix ?

A Scorpio/Redstone mix is oftenly when one parent is of the Scorpio species, and another of the Vampire. They have sharper, longer ears than usual and have more distinguished fangs. They can have the ears, tails and fangs. However, in some manners that is overpowered in some kingdoms since the fangs also have venom in them; just like the tail. Their tails can be used to numb people.

They don’t have a particular color palette.

They can be found in: Crimsonic Ruby Palace, Cursed Settlement

~Quartz Vampire Dominat

As they are called a vampire, they still fit into the gemstone kinda things. Quartz vampires have little gems embedded into their ears and maybe some into their cheeks. They are oftenly rose quartz, moonstone or just normal quartz. They have normal canines but their ears are medium-length and sharp.

They can train to use their gems to create spikes and/or weapons, or go into something they can use for necklaces and stuff. They can specifically find gems easily, and are gentle around the edges.

They can be found in: CherryTown/CherryTown Farms, Sakura Palace, Lilac Meadow

~Blinded Vampire Dominat

This species would be long gone if they weren’t protected in the Sakura palace. This kind of vampire uses animals to look through things; say a raven or a fox. Even cryptic animals that are found elsewhere can be used. They are naturally blind in the eyes, and see things through another's eyes. Their eyes drip constantly and they have small, elf ears. Their fangs are usually used for trade so most no-longer have fangs.

They can be found in: Sakura Palace, Silverplain District, Mushroom City

~Shroom Vampire Recessive

A shroom vampire is a mushroom vampire, it has short but sharp ears with rounded, long fangs. It usually has something to do with a kind of mushroom; like it has it as a birthmark with mushrooms growing off from some places, or shrooms coming from the eye. Oftenly they have warm palettes, but cool palettes can be used too depending on the shroom.

They oftenly use plant-life as a weapon or to study.

They can be found in: Crimsonic Ruby Palace, Mushroom City

Were-People

~Werewolf Domaint

A werewolf is a curse, most of the were-people were cursed to be the way they are. Werewolves have many forms; a wolf, a werewolf, a human, and an in between werewolf and human. When a werewolf is stuck in between, it means their power is stuck in motion and won’t change for many weeks.

Werewolves are usually spikey around the edges with a sensitive side. A werewolf can change on any kind of moon phase.

In humans, they have weird spiky pointed ears showing what they are.

They can be found in: Cursed Settlement, Crimsonic Ruby Palace, [REDACTED], Smoldered Jungle, Evergreen Forest

~Werehyena Dominat

A hyena is kind of the same as a werewolf, but it is more frowned upon to be a werehyena. They have round, spikey ears in a human form but cannot be stuck in between. They have Hyena, Human, and Werehyena. They are usually the most unhinged to be around, and it is dangerous to go near them.

Can be found in: Crimsonic Ruby Palace, [REDACTED], Smokey Mountains

~Werecat Dominat

Meow meow, the felines of the were-kingdom! These were-people can be of many felines; housecats, to the king of the savannah, or the rapid runs of a cheetah. They can change from cat, to human, to were-person. They often have sharp nails, and are usually catty (get it?)

They can be found in: Silverplain District, Sakura palace, Smokey Mountains, Smoldered Jungle

~Werebear Recessive

Werebears are usually bigger, gentler creatures. They can still have a rough side, don’t doubt that. They have usually big, round, fluffy human-like ears with a distinct nose. They are usually much taller in size and are usually protective over things they like or people they love.

They can be found in: Evergreen Forest, Crimson Forest, Lilac Meadow

~Werecervidae Dominat

What are cervidae? They are things like elk, moose, deer– they are usually much gentler and friendly, never really showing a harsh side. They are constantly skittish and watching their back every moment. They have downwards, fluffy ears with tiny horns poking from their head depending on what they are. They can be Deer/Elk/Moose, to Human, to were-person.

They can be found in: Evergreen Forest, Lilac Meadow, Rickety Lush Pond

~Werefox Recessive

Werefoxes are often mischievous, tricky. They have normal human-like ears as a human, with a bushy hairstyle. They are often red-heads, albinos, or blondes. They are usually not tell-able what they are, but they can be fox, were-person or human.

They can be found in: Silverplain District, Crimsonic Ruby Kingdom, Evergreen Forest, Crimson Forest, Smokey Mountains.

~Weregoat Recessive

Weregoats are mostly extinct for the most part; but if you ever find one they are much older in age. They don’t have many specific features, and rarely use their powers so you would assume they are human.

They are found in: CherryTown/CherryTown Farms

Angels

~Dreaming Angel Dominat

A dreaming angel can walk through dreams, thoughts, daydreams; you name it. They usually control the way dreams go, though they cannot control thoughts or daydreams. They have the power to read your mind. They can choose from vivid, to nightmares, to good dreams. They can even make your dreams chaotic if they want to; it’s their path to choose.

They have drippy halos that consist of pastel colors (blue, yellow, pink) and are usually sparkly. They usually have stars in their eyes or diamonds.

A silly thing they can do is glow in the dark, its a sweet magic gimmick they have; they also have very good night vision.

They can be found in: Skystead, Skystead Praying Grounds, Lilac Meadow, Sakura Palace

~Void Angel Recessive

A void angel is in the darker range; with Noir Vampire and some other ones that will come up later. They are also named ‘The Poison Angel’. They have a speciality with potions despite not being a witch, wizard or sorcerer. They can use poison at their fingertips, and can make shadows haunt you.

They have black eye-whites and are secretive.

Can be found in: Skystead Praying Grounds, Skystead Village, Smokey Mountains, Crimsonic Ruby Palace

~Basic Angel Dominat

A Basic angel has no distinguished power, and is terribly pushed aside. They have no cool things added; and instead just live among the bird-people in Skystead.

Halos are white, gold or indigo

Can be found in: Skystead, Azure Lagoon

-Bird/Angel Mix ?

One parent is a bird person and an angel; it can have bird-like wings with one color or it can have multi-color wings. Sometimes they will have halos, but they usually fade out. Depending on the bird person and Angels breed, it completely depends on what power they get.

Can be found: Anywhere

~Sun Angel Recessive

A sun angel controls the sun; it is the opposite of a moon angel or a moon demon. They usually control the weather instead, as the sun demon controls the sun itself. It usually has a bright personality with a good outlook on life.

Can be found in: Skystead Praying Grounds, Mushroom City, Sakura Palace, Skystead

~Moon Angel Recessive

A moon angel controls the stars in the sky, whether it be a shooting star or the stars itself; it helps control it all. It can control the storms as well!

They usually have tattered wings of black and white, white, or black with starry halos.

Can be found in: Skystead, Skystead Praying Grounds, [REDACTED]

Demons

~Icebound Demon Dominat

They are called the ice-demon, frosty-demon, or ice hound. Not many exist to this day, but some still live to tell the tale. They have spikes on their tails, ears, or elsewhat. They don’t have many powers, but can control ice, ice spikes or elsewhat.

Can be found: Hillside Swamp, Azure Lagoon, Rickety Lush Ponds

~Moon Demon Recessive

A moon demon controls the moon, oftenly moon demons are females but there is male moon-demons. They usually have stars embedded on their tails and face, or have glowing eyes. They are usually softer around the edges.

Can be found in: Azure Lagoon, Skystead, Evergreen Forest

~Sun Demon Recessive

These demons usually control the sun and the sky, they have brighter colors and are more welcomed around the realm of dreamsleep. They have planets wrapped around their tails with shiny eyes. It doesn’t mean all are good, though.

Can be found in: Skystead, Azure Lagoon, Mushroom City, Evergreen Forest

~Mist Demon Dominat

A mist demon fits in both ghost and demon species; they can phase through walls, turn to smoke, turn to mist, they can do what they please. They usually have a ghostly face with paler colors, and have a saddening presence.

Can be found in: Azure Lagoon, Cursed Settlement

~Gemstone Demon Recessive

A gemstone demon are specifically assigned a gem; whether it be lapis, peridot, garnet, tiger stone, etc. They can even be assigned quartz. They have gems on their ears, tails, sometimes sprouting off their body in specific places. They glow in the dark and aren’t the friendliest since most of them are being hunted for the gems they carry.

Can be found in: Silverplain District, Rickety Lush Pond, [REDACTED], Smokey Mountains, Buried Lab

~Lavender Demon ?

A lavender demon contains many purple, pink or magenta tones. They have flowers coming off their ears as an accessory as well as their tails, they can use the lilac meadows to their advantage as they can turn invisible.

Can be found: Lilac Meadows, Rickety Lush Pond, CherryTown/CherryTown Farms

~Human/Demon Mix ?

A human and a demon mixing is very much frowned upon in the demon community, they are casted aside to never be seen again. You can rarely find them because of how much it is frowned upon and no demon wants to put themself through that.

Can be found: ?

~Varying Demon Dominat

A varying demon is a mix between [said demon] + [said demon]. This is most of the time common in the demon community, and can be a variety of many different mixes depending on which demon species was with the other.

Can be found: Anywhere

~Elfin Demon Dominat

An Elfin Demon is oftenly a stunted-in-growth demon. They have issues with either a not-fully-grown tail, horns, ears, or powers. It is either one, or two of those. These are common depending on the area, but it isnt frowned upon.

Can be found (MOSTLY): Silverplain District, Evergreen Forest

Bird-People

~Bluejay/Bluebird Recessive

Nothing defining them.

Can be found: Anywhere in Skystead

~Common House Sparrow Dominat

A fiester, smaller bird-person. They are usually rude and constantly think they are right. They might be small, but they are CATTY.

Can be found: Anywhere in Skystead

~Crow + Raven Recessive

A crow or a raven is usually a darker kind of bird-person, there arent many but it is known they surround death and such. They can also be seen as the death god in skystead despite not doing much in it.

Can be found: Anywhere in skystead

~Songbird Dominat

A songbird is usually a gentler kind of species, much smaller and considered a ‘dwarf bird’ in the community. They have a beautiful tone in voice, and like sirens; can lead people to their death.

Can be found: Anywhere in Skystead, Evergreen Forest

~Eagles + Hawks + Vultures, Etc Recessive

These are usually the taller, bigger people in the bird community. They are usually higher-rank and/or in the council itself. They are wise, and have a touch for demand and encouragement. They make good points, and are storytellers. They run the community.

Can be found: Skystead Village itself, Skystead Council

Reptiles

~Alligator or Crocodile ?

These guys are friendly most of the time, but if you do step somewhere they dont like they will come up on you secretly. These are usually people with bigger, sharper teeth with round ears and lizard-like tails. They can also turn into said animal.

Can be found: Azure Lagoon, Hillside Swamp

~Gecko or Skink ?

Smaller in size reptile, they can easily swerve through things and are very very flexible. They have long tongues and can either be tall or short; however it is common they stay hidden as the said animal they are.

Can be found in: Rickety Lush Swamp, Evergreen Forest, Crimson Forest, Sakura Palace

~Bearded Dragon ?

Bearded dragons are usually more elder people than younger, there could be a few little ones running around however it is extremely rare. They are unusually fast despite their age range and go hunting for fun

Can be found: Anywhere

So-wen

~Button People ???

A button person is someone like Kendall, they have a button as eyes, or have buttons somewhere on their skin. They have pointed elf ears with little buttons hanging off of them

Can be found: Anywhere

Elves

~Basic Elf Dominant

Beloved elf person, simple as that.

Can be found: Anywhere

~Gemstone Elf Dominat

An elf with a knack for gems and shinies, constantly wearing something gem-like with pretty gems embedded in their pointed ears that look like piercings despite being in their skin itself. Sometimes they will have gems embedded into their chest, or their arms, in a symmetry manner.

Can be found: Sakura Palace, Silverplain District, Evergreen Forest, Buried Lab

~Eclipse Elf ??

An elf born on any kind of eclipse, depending on the eclipse will tell what they look like. A solar would be something bold, with glowing eyes and a planet embedded into their cheek (planet can be made up).

Can be found: Skystead, Cursed Settlement, Silverplain District

~Aqua Elf Recessive

An elf that was born somewhere in a watery area; they can turn into water themselves or can turn other people into water.

Can be found: Rickety Lush Ponds, Azure Lagoon, Hillside Swamp

~Elf/Demon Mix ???

An Elf/Demon mix, although uncommon, have pointed, droopy ears. They either have tails or horns, cannot be both. It was once frowned upon but now they are welcome into both communities.

Can be found: Anywhere

~Elf/Angel Mix ???

Angels aren’t happy such a thing exist, but they do. Elves do not mind it, and actually openly let them do as they please. They have much larger, sharper ears with small wings. No halo is given to this, but the wings can be many colors or one plain color.

Can be found: Skystead, Silverplain District, Smokey Mountains

~Blood Elf Dominat

A blood elf has red skin, with white, black or gray eyes. They have darker hair-colors and also are able to use staff or make their own staffs. They are usually born on Blood Moons, or they are born into a blood elf bloodline.

Can be found: [REDACTED], CherryTown/CherryTown Farms, Crimsonic Ruby Kingdom, Cursed Settlement

~Night Elf Dominat

A night elf is very common, with pale skin tones and unique markings on their face. They have good night vision, with more distinguished ears. They have an incredible talent with knives, or spears. They are usually roaming around the night and sleep during the day.

Can be found: Anywhere

Sorcerers, Sorcerer Ranks

(Not many live to this day, only around 4-5 still exist)

~Cerasus Vi Kiao

the highest rank in sorcerers, no one will ever reach the height of him.

~High Rank (Esadora Davis)

A high rank is usually hidden away in towers, often elders or of the middle-aged folk. They have seen the tale, have lived it all. Being a high rank is rare, and a gift.

~Middle/High Rank

A middle/high rank is in between High and Middle, they are rare aswell. Getting this high is hard, and a challenge.

~Middle Rank

Uncommon as most new sorcerers are in middle/low, low ranks. Getting yourself to climb the ladder is harder than you think. These are wise people, but they are still on the goofy side

~Middle/Low Rank

Very common among sorcerers.

~Low Rank

Try harder.

~Trainee

Goodluck living through this hell, it’s a bumpy ride on your quest!

~Human

human.

Reapers

(Often Reapers wear animal skulls, or human skulls on their face.)

~Frost Reaper

A frost reaper are reapers usually found around the frosty-like areas. They usually deal with the deaths of species like Icebound Demons. They wear the mask of arctic animals.

~Grim Reaper

A grim reaper is a reaper that is focused on killing every species and guiding them to their death when it is their time. They are usually based around Ravens or Crows, sometimes Grackles.

~Eclipse Reaper

An Eclipse Reapers focus is on Moon, Sun or Eclipse species when it is their time. They usually have half of a mask on one side of their face with stars in their eyes.

~Gemstone Reaper

A gemstone reaper is a grim reaper just with fancy gems they are dressed in. They wear hoods and rarely use masks.

~Afterlife Reaper

An afterlife reaper's focus is on Angels and Demons all together, they usually have 2 pairs of wings with many eyes without an exact face. They don’t use masks.

~Pet Reaper

A pet reaper focuses on animals or pets, guiding them into the afterlife like giving a dog a bone or a cat a fish or toy. They wear all kinds of animal masks. They are usually smaller in size, and it's where all reapers first start.

Immortals

(Immortals are creatures that never die. They choose to not wear masks depending on the person, but it's common for one to have one.)

(Immortals are VERY RARE CREATURES.)

~Sorrowful Immortal

A sorrowful immortal has met a dead end in some other life and had been reincarnated as a Sorrowful Immortal. They are usually bleeding in many places, and do not remember their past.

~Ice Immortal

Someone who has frozen to death in a past life, remade as said immortal to bring the snow and happiness during the winter.

~Autumn Immortal

An autumn immortal has died or suffocated in leaves, or stuck underground to die in the fall. They have leaves or certain plants that grow in the fall wrapped around them and sometimes have horns on their masks.

#dreamsleep explanation #undertale au #dreamtale au #undertale #species #species sheet #dev rambles like a lunatic #drmslp

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skyflyinginaction · 1 year ago

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Clamp Art Style Analysis: Part 2: Series styles and Compare and Contrast

Series Styles

Over the years the Clamp art style changes constantly depending on the series, and the art direction always changes depending on the work and magazine. Clamp’s art style always changes to suit the genre of the magazine the work is running in. When I researched I noticed when I look at their earlier works and recently it's in that their art style changed over the years I saw that the art of these series improved due to different works' sterilization and the hiatus this is seen in a few series that I am going to talk about. I am not going to go over all of their works just choose these series and discuss them in this segment, I am going to be heavily biased and choose this series to talk about the art style, lines, and materials used while drawing the series

X1999

I don’t know the art style with x as I did with the other series since there wasn’t much to talk about in the interviews.

Mostly I think this is the beginning of Clamp’s early years when the art style looked this way. The art style Clamps early years as artists. The one in charge of X's art direction is Nekoi, Nekoi is in charge of the art direction of x with Igarashi assisting, The art in X changed with the art shifted to Nekoi’s delicate style.

The art of X changed expeditiously compared to how the art looked in the first chapter,

The art at the beginning of X had thick ink lines and more dramatic shading in the early volumes and is more or less gone. X is drawn in a more ornate style characteristic of shoujo manga, noting that x is a series intended for a female audience. X takes on a shojo style bolder and more intense art for drawing X there is a heavy use of screen tone. While drawing X, they used straight lines they drew with Thick lines in the beginning, X had a lot of colored backgrounds in the illustrations, and manga X is one of the series in that they had trouble applying screentone.

If you compare x it has changed a lot due to Clamp working on other series though mostly it's because it ran the longest in the magazine. X was sterilized during Wish, Card Captor Sakura, Chobits, Magic Knight Rayearth,Suki, Legal Drug, Legend of Chun Hyang and Angelic Layer.

When it came to creating for x it was the original character profile, Clamp drew all the aspects they wanted to include in the final character in a bulletin-type chart they drew it like a New Year's greeting card.

Unlike with other sterilization, they didn’t decide on the materials they would be using so X doesn’t have any specific material for drawings. Nekoi and Mokona did a lot of experimenting with materials in x. Clamp used many different materials and a variety of techniques when drawing X the colors in x they painted with a lot of new materials and a lot of contrasting colors. There was a lot of experimenting with materials with x. You can see it in the illustrations.

The materials that are used for x are color screentone. Colortone is a type of colored screentone called overlay, their usual color ink, gash, and pastel products X has many different kinds of illustration paper used for coloring from wrapping paper and cardboard to tea wrappers.

I am going to go over the materials they used in their color illustrations from 1992-1996 and 1997-2004

1992-1997

Paper: Kent Block, BB Kent, BB Kent rough surface, Kent paper, sand textured paper, Shinden shi paper, Feather Waltz, Arches, parchment paper, manuscript paper, Watson paper, wood free paper

Lines: Holbein Color Ink (Special black), Photocopied pencil lines, Pigma Graphic pen, Pigma Graphic ink pen, color pencil, pencil, Holbein Color Ink (sepia), poster color, color pencil, Winsor and Newton Drawing Ink (nut brown), Dr. Ph. Martins Sepia Ink

Color: Dr. Ph. Martain’s Color Ink, Acrylic, airbrush, modeling paste, gouache, color tone, poster color, Liquitex, Acrylic gouache, color tone, white out, Copic markers, Lumocolor Ink pen, Lumocolor

1998-2003

Paper: Watson paper, BB Kent, copy paper, Sheet of paper with a light brown color, hotel stationery paper,

Lines: Pigma Graphic ink pen, India ink, Ballpoint pen, Sepia black ink,

Color: Lumocolor ink pen, modeling paste Lumocolor, sepia, copic marker, airbrush, poster, Acrylic gouache, airbrush, color ink, Liquitex, Dr. Ph. Martains Color Ink, Gold brown Ink, Poster color, color ink,

If you looked at the materials and techniques in the comments used for drawing the illustrations of x they

put a lot of work in the color illustrations for x. The materials used in the illustration change the impression.

For the illustrations, There were a few comments about it, A 2002 comment that Fuuma's head looks a little big; this is a drawing habit they had while working on Chobits at the time.

When it came to illustrations sepia ink was used for outlines of characters with pale color profiles since the lines stand out too much in black in illustrations sepia ink was used for characters with pale color profiles. Hinoto, Kakyou, and Kotori have Saphia outlines. Yuto is the only exception. He has a light color profile but looks good with crisp outlines so he is drawn with black ink. When Clamp drew Kotori they always made sure to draw her with a very faint and soft touch when it came to drawing her in illustrations they used Sephia instead of black for her lines.

X is a shoujo manga that ran in Asuka for some time. It has a lot of action scenes that attracted male readers, Asuka gave the team the freedom to create what they saw fit.

There is a difference in colors between the first and subsequent printings as seen in the volumes of X. The volumes up to 4 were a lot tidier but on volume 5. Clamp started to get busier and messier.

Everything in X is written by script, even the details of the collapsing and the destruction of the buildings look like the destruction of the buildings is written from the script from Ohkawa. The backgrounds and destruction of the city were mentioned by Ohkawa. While Clamp is drawing the destruction of the buildings they have reference photos taken beforehand which Igarashi finds tiring and painful.

In Kamui’s character design, Kamui has Tsuri-me-type eyes like Ashura from RG Veda Clamp considered Kamui's hairstyle and uniform average.

The character that Clamp had a hard time drawing appearance-wise is Kotori, Kotori was the character that Clamp found trouble with drawing. When Ohkawa looked at the manuscript copy of chapter one Ohkawa was a little shocked at the drawing of Kotori even considered her like udon. Mokona did her in pencil in the rough draft, Kotori looked soft and sort of limp when she added a pen she looked thicker by thinning down the lines her body became less solid making her float around she became lighter and more impermanent so they used the tip of the pens instead when inking her.

Another one of the difficulties that came with drawing X was drawing all the characters from the dragons of heaven and the dragons of the earth in one picture in the same illustration. They are parts of the character that give you trouble that you confuse with others but individually they are easy.

Clover

Clover has a different sense of atmosphere and techniques. The art in Clover has a feeling of decadence or nostalgia, the wing design looks like older Mecha Ohkawa was influenced by the movie “1984” she made Mokona watch it to recapture its mood. The buildings in Clover reference old movies made to resemble German and European countries. They also used European photographs as references, like photos of German factories.

Ohkawa made modifications to Clovers' art style since it ran in a magazine for young girls the intended audience for Clovers was older so the art style is made to look prettier since it's for girls.

Mokona is in charge of the art in Clover even the story paneling was planned out by her Both Mokona and Ohkawa planned the panels in the manga Clover. The distinctive layouts and layouts of the panels are created with music videos and movies in mind. The panels in Clover look like frames from a movie. Ohkawa had a hand in it with half having to plan the width of each panel. It wasn't easy and took more time. Clamp found the layout the most challenging and most fun they had in the series, for Clover has dialogue or scenes with big spaces between sentences. Clamp used thinner frames to look pretty.

The art material they used is gayoushi paper which is used to emphasize the bounciness of Sue's hair. Gayoushi paper is a type of cartridge paper in Japanese. They used drawing paper for clover the drawing paper here is contrasted with other, more common media. Clamp used different paper for clover which is cartridge paper or gayoshi paper for drawing the manga but the screentone kept slipping off and was annoying to Clamp. They used the copy machine to give Clover a picture book blurred look they had a hard time getting it right and tried many times.

Card Captor Sakura

For the art style of Card Captor Sakura, Clamp wanted to create something really cute.

It focuses on the cute factor so the lines and use of ink are to give it a soft and cute feel Card Captor Sakura uses thin, curved lines the manga Mokona the one who makes the lines thin in Sakura and doesn’t use a lot of ink making the pages light and to make it look soft feel. It is a shoujo manga with a magical girl genre so it would make sense that the series would look soft. Card Captor Sakura uses color ink for the illustrations the color ink is used to create a clear image. For materials Card Captor Sakura and clear card Arc used copic markers and modeling paste in the illustrations.

For designing the Clow cards, the design of borders of the cards was created first. Mokona filled in the illustrations, and the rest determined the card name and functions in the story. Clamp didn’t have problems with designing characters but the expressions changed from the plan.

Chobits

The materials of Chobits are based on Ohkawas decisions for materials. Clamp uses ball pens for drawing. They used ball pens since they wanted something drawn by pencil. The illustrations for Chobits have Clamp use acrylic gouache and more gouache.

In Chobit's art style the character has shorter arms and legs and the shoulders aren't wide. the character designs for chobits for Chi, Chi’s design is the most detailed one.

Legal Drug

Legal Drug came after Suki, Clamp was into underground crime dramas so the manga has serious and dark tones. The series went on a hiatus so the art style changed compared to when it was first run making the art style similar to XXXHolic.

Clamp used digital computer equipment for Legal Drug, Legal Drug is the first series that Clamp drew colored digital for the first time. Clamp drew all the CG color illustrations for Legal Drug. They wanted to use CG as a tool so they learned how to use CG from Katsuya, Okazaki Takeshi, and Takashi Yamazaki. Clamp struggled using the computer for the first time they ran into problems like the power ran out of the computer before saving.

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle

The drawing methods changed with Tsubasa and XXXHolic, two series that worked in tandem; this goes with the drawing style of both series since the art style has been changing. Both scripts of XXXHolic and Tsubasa have a lot of difficulty, Tsubasa was supposed to be for a younger audience which caused it to increase complexity but it gave the team complete creative freedom. Clamp didn’t want to make the pacing too complicated due to being about a young man's journey.

Tsubasa had thicker lines and simple page layouts, Clamp used a marker with thick lines that could be drawn while printing on rough paper since the frames did not work well the fine lines looked blurred Clamp had a problem making the lines too thin, and didn’t have the impact they needed to stand out the lines need to be bold and popped out since it's a weekly manga series said readers tend to forget. The thick lines in Tsubasa are to make the art be seen in the magazine printings since thin lines are too delicate and will make scenes hard to see in the printing of the magazine

Since Tsubasa is running a weekly magazine the thickness of the lines affects the visibility of the magazine printing.

Tsubasa started the trend of drawing thin vertical borders and thick horizontal ones, the difference between the panel borders Clamp separating the panel in the layouts to link it to XXXHolic.

The art style of Tsubasa was based on a suggestion from the editor The editor asked the group to make the drawing style attractive to readers of Shonen magazine Tsubasa is a shone manga drawn to fit that genre Clamp already had design decided and materials prepared.

For materials they are seen using when drawing, Tsubasa is a monograph mechanical pencil used for pencil drafting in their manga. The Clamp uses a marker with which thick lines can be drawn to make it pop out on rough paper in printing the ink markers they use to fill in the large spaces. Clamps have Copic markers for colored illustration in Tsubasa.

Ohkawa directs the art style of Tsubasa, she tells the members to draw the male characters with vigor and take more care of the female characters. Mokona is the artist who crafts the characters and storyboards she draws most of the characters in Tsubasa, female characters have soft fluffy hair and look like they are drawn with soft touches, and male characters are drawn with a rougher touch. Ashura wasn’t easy to draw since they have a feminine beauty and it wasn’t easy to draw those with loose eyelashes. They decided not to draw lower lashes which made the faces stiff, evident with Emeraude they changed her hair and put curls in her hair to make her more graceful. They used their normal style to get the readers to pick up the story. When accustomed to the new style they thought of slowly returning to their art style during the country of Oto.

The script of Tsubasa takes 5 hours, the storyboard 10, and the drawing for the manuscript takes two days for 20 pages. If not going well, it could take three days.

XXXHolic

The drawing methods changed with Tsubasa and XXXHolic Two series worked in tandem compared to the two series XXXHolic was the series that Clamp found was easy to draw.

The characters of XXXHolic are drawn to be very tall and have long limbs; they are thinner and longer in the drawing. It makes characters more expressive in the manga. XXXHolic and Tsubasa have similar proportions for characters The reason is that they cross over Tsubasa is linked to XXXHolic the proportions of the characters are similar to be meant to cross over to Tsubasa.

The materials for XXXHolic they use for drawing are felt tip pens since human characters are drawn by 2 people if they used a regular pen the brushstroke strengths would be uneven Clamp members have strong drawing pressure so having the same pen can even it out. Clamp decided not to use screen tones for xxHolic, XXXHolic is drawn without screen tone to give more of an impression of occultism.

They used mechanical pencils for the drafting stage when drawing in xxxHolic and inking markers to fill in large spaces.

There are a lot of Japanese and Chinese in XXXHolic The style Clamp uses for XXXHolic is similar to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e paintings, a Ukiyo-e art style that dictates longer proportions for the characters. The character looks tall and lean. xxHolic looks more like a wood block painting and has Japanese prints and Alphonse Mucha with an art nouveau in it. The female characters in XXXHolic are drawn by Mokona and the male characters are drawn by Nekoi who are also Yokai and spirits that aren't in human shape and animals.

The covers and color pages are drawn by Nekoi and Mokona together, the base colors of the covers are never white, gold, or silver then color printed over it.

The storyboard for XXXHolic takes 6 to 8 hours done by Saturday.

Kobato

Kobato's art style is similar to Card Captor Sakura’s. The lines used in Kobato are similar to the lines in Card Captor Sakura, and the lines in the manga are thin, like a shoujo manga. The colors of the illustration are pale with a touch of watercolor.

Kobato was made into a brighter series since Tsubasa was heading into a dark development, Kobato's story is loose and not too dark and is meant to be more relaxing.

Comparing and Contrasting the panels of these series

X/1999 & Clover

Clover and X are two old shoujo manga done by Clamp though Clover was drawn during the run of X

making X the longest-running series. Each of the members of Clamp is in charge of the art direction of the manga

with Nekoi in charge of the art direction of x and Mokona in charge of the art direction for Clover.

The lines that are used to ink and the line thickness in the two series are different along with the amount of pen pressure seen in the manga. The members of Clamp have strong drawing pressure. You can see it in the way they drew the lines in the ink and the line weight in the ink in the manga. You can tell the amount of pen pressure used in both the manga series is a testament to how strong the drawing pressure is.

For the line thickness for both series, the lines in X have straight bold thicker lines. The lines in Clover are thin and along with the panels the lines have thin frames.

X uses a heavy amount of screen tone whereas Clover doesn’t use too much screen tone.

They use a different sort of paper for clover that is gayoushi paper which is used to emphasize the bounciness of Sue’s hair.

These are two styles. The art style for Clover is made to look pretty since it's for girls and drawn with an air of decadence to give people old-fashioned feelings when they read it. The style of Clover stands out due to how it's drawn. The frames of Clover are supposed to look more like a movie. The art style of X went through huge changes due to a long year run so its art style changed to be more defined and detailed.

Both manga series have different art styles to suit the atmosphere of the manga X used a heavy atmosphere where Clover has some sort of emptiness that the characters in the manga face to symbolize how bleak their situation is though someone pointed out that a large amount of negative space for clover is drawn to emphasize for the characters loneliness. The atmosphere of X gives a more foreboding sort of feel since it's near the end of the world.

Tsubasa and Card Captor Sakura

These two manga series went through two second series there is major art development compared to how it was first runned here to properly focus on the current art style.

When you put the two together they are radically different.

The art styles for the two series are created to fit the genre with Card Captor Sakura being a shoujo manga and Tsubasa being a shonen manga.

For the lines of the series, Card Captor Sakura is thin curved lines and doesn’t use a lot of ink The lines in Tsubasa are bolder and thicker with simple page line art.

The materials used when drawing Tsubasa for which thick lines can be drawn is a marker with thick lines as stated before the impre.ssion of the series can change depending on the materials used this is true for Tsubasa and Card Captor Sakura

The characters in Tsubasa are drawn differently by different artists the female characters have soft fluffy hair drawn with soft delicate touches and the male characters are drawn with a rougher touch to emphasize masculinity.

The eyes of both series are different. The eyes in both series have different textures in the irises with the upper eyes in Card Captor Sakura being thin and dark. The eyes of Tsubasa are angular and thick there are no lashes in the eyes of Tsubasa

Sakura and Syaoran

If you need to compare the series the styles would be seen best in the designs of the two characters of Sakura and Syaoran. Looking at them together the impressions of these two characters do change depending on the art style of the series they are drawn in. Sakura and Syaoran are drawn differently in Tsubasa than they were in Card Captor Sakura Even though Sakura and Syaoran are drawn the same there are a few differences that set them apart seen in the hair and eyes.

The designs of Sakura and Syaoran are re-used in Tsubasa in designs. I would notice a lot of small details in their designs that make them different and stand out as their hairstyles and eyes differed when you put the two of them together. The new designs of the characters convey the impression of their characters.

There a different impressions of the two characters when you look at the art style how they are drawn with thin lines and how they are drawn with thick lines the impression of the two characters are There different when looking at the different art style and how differences there are in their designs

In the Card Captor Sakura Syaoran looked more like a boy fitting since he is in elementary school so he's drawn to be much younger. The syaoran in Tsubasa gives an image of a young man between boyhood and manhood Tsubasa’s syaoran design highlights maturity in contrast to Card Captor Sakura Syaoran. The height is obvious in the designs drawn with the Tsubasa design.

If I compare the two Syaoran together their expressions are different, Card Captor’s Syaoran looked dour and moody

whereas Tsubasa’s Syaoran spots a determined, serious look. Card Captor’s Syaoran looks like a little kid while Tsubasa’s Syaoran looks like a bright honest, sincere young man. The only difference between the designs of syaorans would be their expressions conveying their overall look and personality in their design. Syaoran is designed based on a shonen protagonist it answered with what would happen if Card Captor Syaoran is the shounen protagonist with Tsubasa Syaoran as the answer.

For Syaoran’s hair: Syaoran’s hair is a crew cut with the end shaved. Both Syaorans have the same hairstyle drawn differently from the series. In Card Captor Sakura there are a lot of lines and details in the hair of Syaoran’s with his bangs being thin lines. Tsubasa’s Syaoran hair is simplified and doesn’t have too many lines his hair and bangs are drawn simply and look blocky and rough he is drawn with rough edges as seen with his hair that emphasizes masculinity.

For Sakura's hair, both the Card CAptor and Tsubasa have short hair. She does have the same short hairstyle; there are a few noticeable differences. Card Captor Sakura’s hair looked straighter in the art, Tsubasa’s Sakura hair has soft fluffy hair and looks bouncy and floofy. her hair moves in different directions to emphasize the bounciness aspect and there are a lot of strands in Sakura's hair.

Card Captor’s sakura is designed based on one of Clamps nieces and Despite them being designed as normal girls, they have this cuteness to them that makes them appealing with Tsubasa sakura designs being reused but still have an image of cuteness like with card captor’s sakura still retains her cheerful and lively personality as she had in Card Captor Sakura.

Card Captor Sakura and Kobato

The two of them are both shoujo mangas but have different audiences with Card Captor Sakura created for a younger audience and Kobato for an older audience in mind.

The two series have different tones Kobato is focused on drama and is more serious but light and loose. Card Captor Sakura is a lighter series than Kobato but is drawn with a soft cute-like feel in mind with Kobato being a focus of reality and the supernatrual in the manga.

The amount of lines when inking at Kobato has a similar style to Card Captor Sakura with the series both using thin lines The lines in Kobato are thin and shojo manga like Card Captor Sakura use curved thin lines and don’t have a lot of of of ink. There are different textures in eyes when inked, Kobato has a lot of lashes in her eyes Sakura has a few lashes

Card Captor Sakura and Chobits

Card Captor Sakura is a shojo manga intended for a younger audience in mind, Chobits is an ecchi manga drawn for an older male audience in mind the art style is appealing to a male audience.

Though the genre of the two series has different art styles they are both drawn with the same thin lines the series are drawn with the use of thin lines and both look soft. Card captor Sakura Doesn’t use a lot of ink and has thin curved lines.

The difference is the materials that are used for the series Chobits uses different materials from Card captor Sakura, for materials for Chobits Clamp use ballpoint pens to make it look to be drawn by pencil The thickness in the eyes of Chobits have a thin line drawn, the ballpoint pen has something to do with it changing the thickness in the eyes.

Tsubasa and xxxHolic

Tsubasa and xxxHolic are both manga series that are drawn in tandem so it wouldn’t be a surprise they have a similar art style. Holic and Tsubasa have similar proportions for the characters this is supposed to show they are both linked. The characters in Holic are drawn tall and have long limbs which are thinner and longer in the manga.

Holic is styled as more of a woodblock painting. Holic art style resembles Japanese ukiyo-e paintings with ukiyo-e longer proportions. Holic is drawn without screentone to give more of an occult feeling.

Clamp uses different materials for the two series, Holic has members draw the characters they use felt tip pens to match Clamps' strong drawing style and use an inking marker to fill large spaces. For Tsubasa the materials they use are a marker with thick lines they used a marker with thick lines to make it pop. Since Tsubasa is more action-oriented since it is a shounen the art needs to pop.

Comparing the thickness of the lines in the series, I would say that Holic has thin lines to contrast with Tsubasa's thick bold lines The eyes of Holic look like there drawn using thin lines and the eyes of Tsubasa have heavy lines in them.

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