#like hmm this hair isn't working. what if we change the shape. then the color. then the-oh no

[tricoufamily]

trying to learn to make pixel sprites and tried to workshop some potential characters and i just made ilya and hinnry on accident. like that's just ilya and hinnry.

[zacs-of-rwby]

Tip: "Teams are sets of hunters that work together to fight the monsters on my world. Those from Vale tend to be based on colors, yours being, well, team RWBY. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang. The names tend to be formed around the names of the team in question. Hmm, I think if I were to use another example, it would have to be team STRQ. Summer, Taiyang, Raven and, well, Qrow. Not that that's an active team..."

DA!Qrow: "Yeah, well, teams don't always last forever..." The smile he shoots at Tip seems strained, his eyes darkened. "Understand why ya used us, though... no way ta know if they know any of the others in our world."

Tip: "I'm sorry, though. You know I would have changed it if I could."

DA!Qrow: "Yeah, yeah, love ya too, Oz, get on with it." Qrow's smile seems a bit less strained now and the hand he uses to ruffle Tip's hair is affectionate. Tip scowls up at him more out of habit than ill feeling, it seems and sighs before continuing.

Tip: "Weiss' semblance is glyphs. You can summon monsters to fight for you, use them as launching pads to help you fight, as shields... oh, all sorts of things! Your aura is white. The Schnee semblance as a whole is rather interesting in that it appears to be inheritance based. You have it, your sister has it. We believe Whitley would, though he hasn't unlocked it quite yet."

Tip turns to Whitley. "Semblances unlock if you have an active aura, though it might take a lifetime to discover them. You have an advantage there in that your siblings and your mother both possess the same one, as did... your grandfather. Your aura is silver, if that helps, though. Aura is a form of protection and you needed it at the time. " Tip's voice wavers slightly when he mentions Nicholas. Tip's version of Qrow rests a reassuring hand on his shoulder and he glances up at him in gratitude. He's definitely hiding something.

He turns to Cinder, eyes slightly distant. He grins at her reassuringly, though beside him, DA!Qrow's eyes are hard.

"Your aura is orange. Your semblance, well... your counterpart can superheat objects, b-bend them into other shapes. She's very good at u-using fire to... well. Fire is an interesting semblance and she isn't you!" Tip stutters slightly as he talks though, eyes haunted.

DA!Qrow: "Yeah, from what I've seen, ya're very different. Keep it that way." It's not quite a warning, though his tone is flat. Tip shivers slightly next to him.

Tip: "You're not her. You are not bound by her choices! None of you are your counterparts, good or bad!" His voice is stronger, indignant.

"As for you, Mercury? Your aura is grey, though I'm afraid I don't know your semblance. We fight in other ways, too though. Most of you have weapons too, if you want to hear about them?"

He glances at Mr. Oz, looking briefly apologetic.

Weiss: Oh, wow! Ours is hereditary? That sounds fascinating. Is that common?

Whitley: [quietly] Apparently I don't get to have that power...

Cinder: [furrows her brow] Why are you getting so squirrelly when talking about mine? And why did you emphasize that I'm not the same in this universe so much? You didn't say that to anyone else...

Mercury: Hm... That sucks. I really wanted to know mine...

Mr. Oz: [smiles appreciatively at Tip's concern] It's alright if you want to share their weapons with them, dear. It doesn't sound like we have the technology to match yours. I'm not all too worried about it.

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more proof of Rachel responding to criticism (but it deserves its own post)

Shoutout to @loreolympusminoredits over on Instagram because they were the one that we saw pointing this out, but Rachel and her team went and edited a panel in the newest free episode right as it became free.

Original:

Edit:

So, a few things about this.

FIRST OF ALL, it's clear beyond a shadow of a doubt now that Rachel is seeing the criticism being made about the S2/3 art and its degradation. A lot of those criticisms include how overly-sexualized Persephone is (because Rachel will take any and all opportunity to draw her mamajama's as the central focal point of the shot even when it doesn't make sense) and how little floral there is compared to S1 despite her being the Goddess of Spring.

THAT BEING SAID, SECOND OF ALL, this edit still feels so incredibly low effort. It doesn't tell me that Rachel genuinely wants to do better, it tells me that she's doing this because Webtoons finally told her to shape up and do it or because the criticism finally got to her head but instead of going "hmm, maybe the points people are making are genuine?" she's going "FINE. IF YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BE DICKS ABOUT IT, I'LL REMOVE HER BOOB LINE. HAPPY NOW????" (no, because the art still looks cheap and rushed, it's still missing color along the left side of her dress/arm ffs, changing little things like her cleavage and adding some white blobs into her hair isn't getting to the spirit of these criticisms - and that's that the whole vibe of the art is gone, there's no personality or oomf that it had back in S1).

THIRD OF ALL, SHE DIDN'T EVEN EDIT OUT THE ORIGINAL PANEL LMAO YOU CAN LITERALLY COMPARE THE OLD VERSION AND THE NEW VERSION RIGHT ON THE COMIC, BECAUSE THE PANEL SHOWED UP AT THE END OF 227 AND IS SHOWN AGAIN IN THE BEGINNING OF 228. BUT SHE ONLY EDITED THE 228 ONE LMAOOO SO NOW IT'S JUST INCONSISTENT 🤣 it's like Rachel thinks she's "winning" for doing the bare minimum but she's creating even more little art inconsistencies and problems. It gives me the impression she only changed the panel because it was about to become free to read and she wants the non-fast-passers to be eluded into thinking she's making 'more effort' when that 'effort' is literally just like, white blobs and the eraser tool and one redrawn line LMAO

Anyways, all that's to say, Rachel we can see you editing your panels and your efforts to do so are so bare minimum it hurts. You don't need to go back and edit old panels, you need to work on the stuff that's coming out, and that's gonna take a lot more work than just throwing in some blob flowers and erasing Persephone's boobs. You haven't addressed the oversaturated colors that make the characters look like they've been dipped in grease paint, the void backgrounds that make that oversaturation look even WORSE, the lack of watercolor texturing, lack of glow, anatomical problems, overuse of lineart, character model inconsistencies between panels, lack of shape language, and lack of overall visual appeal that's definitely being lost due to an over-reliance on assistants to pull the weight of drawing the comic and lack of proper direction/training to get everyone on the same page.

Go back and read your own comic for once, Rachel. Do some studies on what used to be good about your art. Get your assistants on the same wavelength. Make an actual effort. Because there are currently SHITLOADS of salty unpaid Internet randos online drawing circles around you and understanding your techniques better than you do these days.

And as one of those salty unpaid Internet randos, here you go: