#hoshi idwtbamg

[thenadnerb02]

IDWTBAMG Fanart

Here’s a little something I drew based on I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl created by @kianamaiart

It’s all super cool and as a student artist/animator, a lot of the stuff Kiana has posted on her blog regarding the process of making IDWTBAMG has been super helpful knowledge! I plan to look at it as a model for what to do if i (hopefully) ever create an animated series of my own.

So I just want to say thank you. I look forward to what comes next.

[heilos]

I am so hype for the I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl animatic pilot @kianamaiart is in the process of making right now. Something just clicked in my brain where I had to make an elaborate piece of fanart with these amazing character designs the second I saw them, so I took the opportunity to sit down and finally learn Clip Studio Paint properly. Logo was made by kianamaiart and julietran.jpg on instagram. I just cropped out the solid background color for this fan poster to give it some extra flair. Kiana, you're a phenomenal artist and person and I can't wait to see what you've got in store with this project. I hope you like this as much as I enjoyed making it. :)

[s0upjuice]

how do you fly this thing?!

characters from @kianamaiart's i dont want to be a magical girl!

[pazam]

Looking forward to the animatic!

(Hoshi belongs to @kianamaiart!)

[namesarehardforme]

"Hey, kid, you gonna transform or what?"

Pixel art of Hoshi from @kianamaiart's I don't want to be a magical girl

[fiarfliart]

While everyone else got some rest, Aika and I stayed up way too late...Oops.

I'm gonna go ✨sleep!!!!✨

[ok-pop-1]

i dont wanna be a magical girl...

fanart for @kianamaiart! background image credit here

[faithful-grigori]

Speculation: The fact that both villains have friendship based Eeveelutions suggest they’re not entirely bad. And DeVoid having a Legendary Pokemon that’s noticeably incomplete combined with her bio does have interesting implications…

Got asked about Pokémon teams for these guys! Went off of vibes, personality and aesthetics more than anything. Y'all can try guess the "whys" for em.

Hoshi isn't here bc I feel like they'd be more of a Meowth situation where they're a Pokémon themself. We'll say they're the Cosmog lol

[namesarehardforme]

Hoshi from @kianamaiart's I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl trying their best to drink a slushie

[kianamaiart]

So I’m wondering, when did you come up with the concept/characters for IDWTBAMG and when did you start working on it?

Doodled Aika and Hoshi as a shits and giggles for fun thing and posted this (August 6th)

Didn't draw the characters for a whole month then designed Zira (Sept 3rd)

Designed and finalized the characters and villains shortly after that and also came up with their bios (Sept 9th-12th)

Wrote the pilot script and thumbnailed a chunk of it in a day (Sept 11)

Had roughly a quarter of the board done pretty quickly (Sept 17)

First pass of the board was pretty much done by October and I casted most of the VAs by mid October. Recorded all of them the first week of November and now we have an animatic going! So that's where I am currently~ Mostly doing tweaks, acting passes, getting pickups and putting in SFX. Once we have the animatic locked, gonna do a music pass and that'll be pretty much it!

The pilot's gonna be about 9:30min (not including the ED song)!

[hollifo]

ASTRAEUS QUIVERS BEFORE HER!

Star Guardian: Guardian of the Stars

[kianamaiart]

If IDWTBAMG were rated PG-13, and you were allowed exactly one “fuck”, who would say it and under what scenario? (And more serious question, if you could put these characters into an existing media what would it be?)

there is one "fuck" in the pilot

and if it wasn't an incid saying it, it'd be hoshi, probably being irritated with aika

i'd probably put them in pokemon because that's just who i am

[kianamaiart]

I just wanted to tell you that I love idwtbamg and am especially blown away by the character designs for aika and zira!!!!!! their colour palettes compliment each other really well and are soft while still having some contrast and I would love to know how you came up with the designs or if you don't feel like sharing that, your favourite parts of their designs and what you're most proud of? Good luck with the pilot, by the way!!! ^^

Aw thank you so much! Character design was initially what I wanted to do when entering the industry so I love whenever I'm able to do it~

I talk about my process for picking colors here a bit!

Design process under the cut (loooong post ahead)

Whenever I'm designing a cast of characters I always start with the main character and build off of them. I started specifically with Aika's normal girl design. I wanted a star theme, and the star hair was the first thing I knew I needed. With her hair being the most eye catching and important part of her design, I wanted to make sure whatever else she had going on wasn't gonna distract from it too much. So I went for a more top heavy, but simple look with a big tshirt, small black pants. Aika was initially fully blonde but the stark black pants was starting to pull the eye. That gave me the idea to use the stark black in her hair (for the bottom half)! Made her hair even more eye catching and highlighted the star pigtails in a nice way.

For her magical girl design, I wanted to make it feel over the top and overwhelming to contribute visually why Aika wouldn't want to be a magical girl. Big poofy dress, ribbons poking out every where for a crazy silhouette and tall, tall platforms. I also wanted to give her longer hair in this form so I went with goddess locs! I was able to do an easy shorthand with it (long thick strands with lil curls at the end) I like the kinda biblically accurate angel look she has. My favorite part of this design was the ribbons in her hair that make the star pigtails look like shooting stars heehee

With Zira I knew I wanted her to be opposite to Aika. So sticking with the space thing, I gave her a moon motif and that was my jumping off point. With Aika having high pigtails, I decided to give Zira low pigtails and give them a vaguely crescent shape (like crescent moons get it?). Continuing with the opposites thing, I wanted to make Zira's design bottom heavy as opposed to Aika's top heavy one, and also color-wise, go on the opposite side of the color wheel from yellow for its complimentary color, purple! I didn't want Zira to feel too stylish (she's a loser after all) but also didn't wanna make her design ugly. I tried toeing the line of out of style but lowkey trendy with the grungy skirt, jeans combo. Also went with the stark black shirt under the tshirt to lean harder into the 2000s look. On top of that it helped tie her design to Aika's more (this is where I decided the stark black was gonna be an essential part of the design language of this show). My favorite part of her design for me is the mangled ends of her pants. It's a small detail but I think it says a lot about her as a character (she drags her feet, she's a little careless, kinda messy, etc.)

Hoshi is star. There's not much more to their design haha. I did give them wings to mirror Aika's dress ribbons. With their human design though, I just knew I wanted to make sure that they'd be able to make a star shape with their silhouette. Thus the hoodie and stubby limbs. Gave them the stark black pants (again at this point, it's part of the design language of this show). I tossed around the idea of giving them eyes that matched more with Aika and Zira, but it just didn't look like Hoshi so I stuck with the same face in their star design and I just thought that was funny hehe. My favorite part of Hoshi's design is just the overall fact that I managed to make them look like a star in their human form still haha

Eclipse was the hardest design for me. You would not believe how long it took me to decide whether I wanted to make him a boy or a girl. Eclipse was always gonna be named Void (and DeVoid was gonna be Eclipse) but it didn't feel quite right. I knew I wanted him to ALSO be opposite from Aika, but in a different way that Zira is. Looking at it that way helped me land on the name Eclipse because I thought it'd be fun to give both Zira and him moon motifs (as Aika's love interest and alleged love interest respectively). Similar to Zira I wanted to have purple be in his design to contrast the yellow in Aika's design. Due to his name now being Eclipse, I figured going dark with his design would make the most sense but my friend/roommie Bri @/ghostbri (who is a professional painter/color designer) suggested going pastel instead and it worked perfectly. It matched his personality and also plays on the fact that he cares more about theatrics and aesthetics than actual villainy. He completely misses the point of being the servant of darkness. He's heavily inspired by Tuxedo Mask. I wanted to make it feel like he saw a cool character once in a tv show and he decided to make it his whole persona. So he's got the suit, he's got the cape and he's got the mask. My favorite part of his design is his cape, intended to also have a crescent moon shape but then also have that stark black on the inside so his silhouette really pops against it. It's funny bc it ended up being like a reverse eclipse where the light is blocking out the dark.

DeVoid was the easiest for me to come up with the design for LMAO. Like obviously. I wanted to make her feel slick but prickly but also slightly over the top like a lot of old school magical girl villains. I thought it'd be a difficult balance to strike but it actually wasn't too bad! I gave her a sort of form fitting cocktail dress and at this point the stark black was a must so it worked out that the "void" character would just be in that all black look. It really helped her feel slick like I wanted (also gave her the slicked back hair for this reason). To give her some edge, I gave her the giant pointy shoulder pads, giant pointy horns, pointy ears, sharp nails and bat wings! Oh also worth mentioning she's the one main cast character I didn't use Aika as a jumping off point for. I designed her to look good next to Eclipse since they'd be the ones interacting the most. I made her wings white to contrast with her black dress (opposite to how Eclipse has a black cape but then mostly white outfit). To ensure that her design wasn't too dark and that her arms would read against her body, I gave her those bright silver bracelets~ While her design was easy for me to come up with, my god figuring out what color to make her hair was killing me. Tbh I was avoiding pink/red like the plague. I didn't want her to look toooo much like Jessie Team Rocket LOL. I tried white, I tried purple, I tried a more pastel pink but none of them worked well in a lineup with the rest of the characters. Bri helped talked me through all this haha. Pink/red worked the best especially there was no pink/red in the entire lineup. The Jessie influence is still there but I feel like she looks different enough! Favorite part of her design is her big ass horns)

Finally Miss! Miss was an interesting case because I designed her as I was storyboarding the pilot. She was intended to be an incidental character that we'd only randomly see once in a while. She had a veeery generic teacher design in my first pass but then as I was hiring VAs I got the idea to cast Michele Knotz to play her and that was enough for my brain to start going and come up with a backstory for her and a role that could tie in with the rest of the cast in a more meaningful way. Because of this, I designed Miss to the voice I imagined Michele would use for her. She does a great groggy and tired voice so I gave her those tired eyes, she has a darker color palette, her posture's a little more sluggish, etc. Her design still felt bland in the board so I gave her a couple piercings which helped. But then! The stark black! I gave her the half dyed hair which worked phenomenally and is probably my favorite part of her design. It leans into the tired feel (too tired to dye her roots) and also was a nice way to get the black in her design without just having to give her black pants or a black shirt or something. I'd only figured out her color palette way later and after recording Michele. The VA announcement image was the first time I'd fully drawn and colored Miss. I went with green since there was no green in the lineup! Also green's my favorite color so I had to.

PHEW that's it! Hope it was an interesting read and look into my brain.

[kianamaiart]

Are you hoping for IDWTBAMG fanfic to be more canon-compliant or go off the rails like MLP fanfiction did? More "Aika and Zira's first date" or "Hoshi is threatening to burn down a Pizza Hut because the city threatened to turn off their power"?

i usually go for more canon compliant stuff but since there's so little canon for this, anything goes!! and im just grateful people would even think to make stuff relating to these characters at all haha

[kianamaiart]

So sorry if you've already had a similar questionor if the information is somewhere else, but what would be everyone's birthday in IDWTBAMG? more specifically star signs, are you big into horoscopes at all?

Amazing question, I'm not super knowledgeable about horoscopes but I asked my friend @ghostbri for her expert opinion (and then I tacked on the birthdays accordingly hehe). Idk if Hoshi and DeVoid would have bdays but I'll make some up for the sake of this question!

AIKA- June 20 (Gemini)

ZIRA- September 8 (Virgo)

HOSHI- April 13 (Aries)

ECLIPSE- August 19 (Leo)

DeVOID- October 29 (Scorpio)

MISS- October 1 (Libra)