#so much of the details in Frey and Cuff and all the other characters would get lost to an anime style I think | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

phoenixiancrystallist · 2 years ago

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Month 4, day 30, I meant what I said in this response to @cruelfeline, I'm drawing Emotive Chibi Cuff! ...somehow XD

Tonight was mostly reference gathering, and getting something sketchy out for the sake of showing progress. The first step I need to complete in the actual drawing/design part is to figure out how I'd want to draw Cuff in an anime style. Once I figure that out, I can properly chibify him, although tbh I'll probably be sticking with that tube-with-a-snake-tail design because it's heckin cute and I think Cuff would hate that lol

Idk about the fang-y mouth but since Elias and Al are the best references I have to go on (unless someone can point me to other anime that has non-human faces that get similarly stylized), that was the first thing I tried

#the great artscapade of 2023 #art #my art #forspoken fan art #forspoken cuff #this will also be good for me figuring out how to properly draw him in that one pic where Frey's giving him a bath!#I still want to gather my own references #I have a certain angle I want to capture #for this one though I just need to get the basic gist down #so much of the details in Frey and Cuff and all the other characters would get lost to an anime style I think #simply because of the necessity of simplifying them for ease of drawing a bajillion times #3D animation really lends itself to detailed and intricate designs that are harder to do in 2D animation #it's not IMPOSSIBLE but it's so much work #and while it's true that for the Cuff bath art I can be as detailed and intricate as I want #on account of it's a static image that I will not be animating #(shut up ideas; get back in your box)#if I want to make a design that would work well for an anime production I have to figure out how to simplify him #..........#get simplified wrist idiot >D #yeah that's right #I'm breaking you down to your bare essentials #what you gonna do about it? huh? huh???#dork (affectionate)

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