#honkai redesign

[oneiikin]

(8.14.2024)

The Rise and Fall of a Peacony Princess

[infinite-intimidator]

susannah redesign... again. same procedure as last time, my notes are below ⤵️

this is mainly a result of me reading the manga but i've really come to like how purple looks on susannah. i still stand by the older design i made but the green and the purple can coexist. they can be friends

my one palette-related problem (my other gripes were adressed in the last post) with her battlesuit is the white, also known as the elysiafication. i normall dont have a problem with white taking center stage on a design (i think HoHe is BEAUTIFUL), but it gets boring when every single battlesuit is the same. so i removed the white from her palette entirely, and replaced it with black and dark purple like her phosdjinn outfit in the manga.

i've also drawn her stature differently as i've explored susannah more as a character. she's sweet and a little shy, but not timid like seele used to be, so her design has a lot of straight lines with gentle curves, reflected in her face, hair, and clothes. susannah is also seen using bear claws to fight in the manga which is SO CUTE HELLO? HOYOVERSE WHY DIDNT YOU USE THIS. so i'm choosing to think of susannah as a meelee fighter who uses her upper body a lot, hence the broader shoulders. mourning the loss of a set of cutsey bear-themed gauntlets every day.

i did like the introduction of hot pink to her design in the game though, so i kept that. i think it adds a lot to her palette

and dont ask me about the hairstyle. i couldnt decide whether i liked my designs pigtail-buns or the original designs low pony so i did both. logic be damned shes got hella hair

[jellyshark-jester]

Here is Aponias redesign!!!

I'd just like to add that I think she's a very pretty character it's just her clothes bugs me a lot, like how dose it stay on???

Anyways here she is<<33

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I practically kept (mostly)everything in her original design as I like the colours and she's very pretty

And now the process cuz I went to look at her concept to see what they where going with

Here's the process:

Overall I really enjoy this, I should have put it down as headcannons but eh :/

Btw I just wanna add that I'm doing this just for fun so yee :DD

Anyways silverwing bronya next uwu

[tea-cat-arts]

Today on "brainstorming here cuz my irl friends don't play honkai":

Earlier I noticed that finality's wings (?) tend to extend and retract in and out of Kiana and that kinda got me thinking about what if every aspect of the design functioned kinda like that? I'm thinking something like Aerial in Witch from Mercury where she has some independent drones that come out of her body and combine to take on different shapes and weapons (episode 2 fight scene for non-spoilery example)

messy thumbnail cuz I'm still working this out in my head, but I'm thinking maybe the default state would be a large set of wings that separate to form whatever weapons Kiana wants (and each time the drones separate, the wings get smaller). As much as I like finality's current attack sequence, I think I'd want this version to have a rotation that's something like "pistol> drones + fists> sword > greatsword> drones shooting from above> back to pistols" to sorta elude to Bronya, Fu Hua, Mei, Himeko, and Theresa's weapons. I also think it'd be fun if we got Bronya giving Kiana the drones in the same way we got Mei giving her the sword.

Going forward with the general aesthetic, I'm thinking maybe doing something that has more of honkai's classic mech aesthetic, but with the imaginary tree roots and flowers sorta breaking through it? Also still debating how much honkai corruption I want on her skin :/

I don't have a good conclusion to this ramble. Have a nice day

[aislingxyz]

my ruan mei redesign!

[theellipelli]

yq design for nostalgic chill! he's two years older than canon, so he's a little larger and more confident.

[vuiltone]

some of my clothes versions/redesigns for hsr ladies

[pretzel-bitz]

Me and my dearest oomf made a Trailblazer! Aventurine au!! So a design a did awhile ago for that, literally my finest work I fear

Au premise is he joins the express instead of the IPC as a child (totally feel free to ask about the au/design, I plan to hopefully draw more for it)

[sillygoose-xp]

Feixiao redesign wip bc this women deserves armor and actual pants

[chebupeli56]

Redesign Topaz

I AM REALLY BAD AT CREATING DESIGNS HAHA.....

[yuamin]

ORORUN REDRAW GUIDE !

i think we’ve all seen the atrocity that is genshin’s unreleased character, ororun. the entirety of natlan is a mess really, but as a yoruba person myself i CANNOT keep quiet about ororun specifically.

outside yoruba mythology, in yoruba, ‘Olorun’ (the name ororun is based on, pronounced o-law-roon , with o pronounced as in orange and the ‘roon’ pronounced shortly, not dragged on at all) is actually the same word we often use to refer to God in Christianity. Christianity is the primary religion among us yorubas so honestly, i was kinda glad they misspelled his name. it would feel SO disrespectful referring to whatever that thing is with the same word we use to refer to God who we actually worship. religion aside, genshin’s depiction of Olorun (cultural god, not Christian one) is downright disgusting. i’d never paid too much attention to genshin and its poor representation, but now that my culture has fallen victim to it, i completely understand all the outrage.

edit: please note that while we use ‘Olorun’ to refer to the Christian God, Olorun is just a general word for ‘god’ itself ! for example if i say “God in heaven” and “god of thunder” we know i’m referring to two different beings, in yoruba it’s the kind of the same—the same word is used to refer to both the Christian and other gods, but we know it’s different, even though olorun can be capitalized regardless of what god we’re talking about (unlike english where the Christian God is capitalized and other gods aren’t) at the end of the day though, when we say “olorun” even without context, we are usually referring to the christian God !

1. PLEASE DO NOT DRAW HIM WITH ANIMAL EARS !

i’ve noticed that hoyoverse has this nasty habit of portraying every dark skinned character as wild or animal-esque. kaeya seems to be the only exception to this. even xinyan, though lacking any animal features, has this wild energy to her. some might call it a stretch, but i feel like her features are pretty feline in comparison to other liyue characters.

Olorun in our culture is the supreme god of the heavens. In my opinion, it is disrespectful to liken him to something akin to an animal. normally i wouldn’t even mind that much, but with how hoyo makes its few dark characters more and more like animals, i can’t help but feel weird about it. its really off putting.

2. HIS HAIR WOULD NOT BE CURLY !

majority of nigerians have 4C HAIR. not wavy hair or loose curls. some have 4B, but 4C is the usual here, that is, kinky or coily hair. Olorun is often portrayed as bald in traditional art, but trust me if he had hair his hair would resemble his people’s, not Tyla’s.

DREADLOCKS ARE A YES ! outside nigeria, locking hair is pretty common, but in nigeria a lot of people have locks naturally. our hair sometimes just grows out that way, no treatment no nothing. dreads are 100% an appropriate style, they look good asf too.

3. PLEASE USE CULTURAL FABRICS IN YOUR DESIGNS !

when i saw ororun’s outfit, i almost started crying. they couldn’t even bother to dress him up a little. they really dressed my brother in a scarf and cape and called it a day 😭 upon how fashionable we nigerians are know to be, hoyoverse still made it their mission to embarrass us stylistically. God knows my people have suffered man 😭

ankara is a traditional nigerian fabric that features bright colors and lots of patterned designs. see below:

here in 9ja, we love our ankara. it’s a big part of our fashion here and trust me it would look excellent in your designs. it’s perfectly fine to draw ororun in normal fabrics since he’s a deity and it’s not like ankara existed back then, but if you really want to represent nigeria, ankara is a must 🙏

i’m going to address another fashion piece because if you search up nigerian fashion you’ll see it a lot: beads.

these orange beads are igbo (another tribe here in nigeria) NOT yoruba. does this mean you can’t use it in olorun’s design ? no ! let me explain. tbh, here in nigeria there’s a bit of...tension between clans. it’s not that common, but older people are definitely a lot more tribalist. as a yoruba i love my igbo brothers and sisters, i truly believe they’re the most fashionable clan and i adore their festivities, they always go over the top. please, just look at them:

(only one image because of image caps, ugh)

anyway, we yorubas wear beads too. but the specific way the beads are worn around the head and in multiple layers round the neck is igbo, not yoruba. though i personally wouldn’t care too much if i saw olorun with igbo beads since all i want is for him to at least look nigerian, at the end of the day he is a yoruba deity. it might be disrespectful to dress the god of one clan as if he belongs to another, especially since there is so much historical ( and very slight but uncommon present ) day tension between both clans.

here’s a more yoruba outfit. sorry yall, it might be hard for you to distinguish if you’re not yoruba or igbo, but a lot of nigerians can tell the difference at a glance. ( actually nowadays, there is so much overlap between yoruba and igbo fashion, but there are many specific styles that may be associated with one tribe and not the other, for example how beads are worn in the above paragraph ) please do your research, he’s not only a nigerian god, but a yoruba one.

one more thing, because i know it will start discourse : skin tone.

nigerians have a very diverse range of skin tones. some of us are so pale, if not for our afrocentric features we could maybe pass for another race. however, ororun is yoruba.

light skinned nigerians are usually igbo. not to say that yorubas can’t be light skin, but here in nigeria if you saw a light skinned person, we’d automatically assume they were igbo. igbo people usually have lighter skin tones. majority of yorubas fall on the more milk to dark chocolate end of the skin tone spectrum. i’m saying this now because i know a lot of people are going to start arguments over ororun being redrawn as ‘too light’ or ‘too dark.’ i don’t really care about complexion, but i thought i’d help you all get your facts right.

that’s it ! if you read all this i’m super thankful. i don’t usually post about this kind of stuff but i honestly love my country and could go on about it for days. nigeria is such a beautiful place with a diverse range of cultures— from hausas to fulanis to so many more. natlan was supposed to be Africa’s time to shine, as well as latin americans, but hoyoverse said fuck you and your people. they did this to an extent with sumeru but natlan was done straight up dirty—not a single melanated character in sight, and the only one who does have melanin, iansan, looks so desaturated you might as well call her grey. i saw someone on tiktok call mualani a dark skinned character—it was at that point that i knew genshin was done for.

please REBLOG this post so it reaches more people and artists in the fandom !! this is literally the third time i’m making this post because tumblr refuses to show it in the tags for some reason 😭 i encourage other cultures who feel misrepresented to make posts like this too. it’s a perfect opportunity to educate and inform people about the diverse cultures genshin has once again failed to represent properly.

Hoyo has never been one to make customer satisfaction their top priority, but we’ve been able to call them out before and i truly believe we can do it again. Natlan is not poor design choice. it is blatant racism, a nation based on POC ethnicities with not a single colored character insight. Hoyoverse has been able to escape racism accusations for as long as i can remember, but natlan is the icing on the cake. we CANNOT allow hoyo to proceed as planned without giving them the appropriate backlash.

Also, if you redraw ororun using this guide, make sure to tag me here or on my main blog, @heartkaji !! i’d love to see all your redesigns. once again, thank you all for reading and have an amazing day !!

[oneiikin]

(11.13.2024)

Rappa edit again since this post is popping off!!

[minart-was-taken]

More redesigns! Argenti is the most gorgeus man, so there's not much to change... But also HSR has one tan boy, so. Black and Asian Argenti for fun!! Yippee!

Guinaifen also has a fun design I enjoy to a degree, but it's SO heavy on the street performer aspect as opposed to her social media angle! So, I decided to make a weird mix! It may be strange but I enjoy it lol

[jellyshark-jester]

Sena headcannon/redesign hehe

This is just a coloured sketch with more refined lines cuz I cba atm

I’m warming up to part two, I still need to complete tho… but rn I wanna draw my bb<<333 she’s so cute and I can’t dnukdhukhd i have just an enibini problem with it and i thought I just draw it, it might change in the feature but I love her red star motif sm she is indeed the brightest star<<<333

Anyways her game play is so fun and I’m hopping to get her hehe, and she’s sober all very ditsy and silly<<333 and I love ditsy and silly characters

Oh and I forgot to explain her shoes, they have wheels hehe

[halfassedtea]

⭐️ Samp Revamp for all those impatient WHORES (me) ⭐️

[hibapanem]

Black Swan redesign your majesty 😌💯💕 i was inspired by the witches from the Master and Margarita... i think BS glows with fluorescent light