#the clothes pose used 2 wear were not rly alike what he wears now lol i was in my like sweatshirts era

[matoitech]

🖊 w/ pose + gem if u wanna! :]

hehe absolutely i love them >:3 quick icons of them so ppl know which ones they are!

a fun fact abt pose: his character existed for years but only got revamped within the last few years and she quickly became one of my faves <3 he used to be a maned lioness (i was so fucking close 2 the transgender realization lol) but he got to trans his gender along with me later!! woohoo!! i think the only things that remained from his original design were the general tall pink maned lion and hat thing. also her name used to be max. actually i have one of his first refs.. its VERY old (i didnt used 2 date them so not sure how old exactly) but like :) look at him. transed his gender!! im so proud of him

a fun fact abt gem i had her character in my mind for like at least a year and a half before i finally figured out his design, i had at least the basic’s of gem’s character set in my mind since i wanted a partner for pose but it was rly difficult to figure out how to translate a black leopard with their like faint goldish rosettes into an EASILY drawn oc design, since i didnt want him to take me a rly long time every time i drew her lol or i would avoid drawing him n that was the opposite of what i wanted. and one thing that took me rly long: her hairstyle. i didnt know what i wanted her hair to look like and for a while i debated just not giving him hair lol. so the style was averi’s idea (its actually partly inspired from an official lio art where his hair is pulled up a certain way lol) since i sat down and worked on character design for a couple hours one night w him b4 art fight and figured out her design finally!! i still have like a board i made pretty early on when i was like ok i have some vibes but like.. now how to translate this into an oc, and one that looks good with pose since theyre designed to be a matching set..

and i ended up getting the idea of him being a purple shade from a previous black leopard i drew (yrs before i think) that had a lot of purples, since i was struggling w color ^_^ i was rly happy to get to a place in her design that i was finally happy with since it took so much time tinkering around w it, but worth it!