#i just felt like y/inu could use more m/ama in her design

[erigold13261]

Just curious, why did you decide to redesign Yinu? She looks amazing both in canon and your take!

Hmmm, good question!

I don't really know when I started it. Before I used to draw Yinu more like canon, with pale skin and more straight hair that just had flowers on the end of her hair and would be put up for concerts.

Then I started drawing her hair more puffy when it was down. Like it was still straight until it got to the point where all the flowers would be clumped at the end, which I drew pretty puffy like.

From there I started to realize that Yinu looked a LOT like her dad with not a lot of elements from Mama. So one day while drawing Yinu from memory I made her hair puffy so that it looked more like Mama's when she is mad (but still yellow) and her skin more of a darker orange to also kinda match Mama.

She kept her eye color from Papa (the color and pupil) and the shading thing from Mama (the upper and lower part of the iris). I think I usually draw her with an eye shape between Mama and Papa's (when she's older at least since as a child I draw her eyes like big ol circles lol)

Though I guess now I kinda made her look too much like Mama, I might add a lot more flowers or change her nose or face shape a bit more to show more Papa. I was actually trying to draw her with a more square face like Papa than a heart shape like Mama, but I forget to do that on the rare occasions I draw older Yinu lol.

But for the most part, I really wanted to add more of Mama into Yinu's looks! I tend to draw all three of them (Mama, Yinu, and Papa) with darker skin tones than they have in game (especially Yinu and Papa, Mama is just less saturated I feel like with some darkness to it).

So uh yeah, long story short, it was more by accident when drawing her over and over from memory than anything else. And I just stuck with what I ended up with!

It's like my version of Rin having rainbow hair extensions, Tatiana having crystal eyes, or Sayu having puffy hair! All things I played around with when drawing the characters and some things just stick over others!

Here's a bunch of my old Yinu drawings I compiled if anyone wants to see my progress of her (though they are probably not in order lol)