Been wanting to do one of these with Lauren for AGES, but I never got round to it. Then I saw the Lydia and Phinium expression sheets on @littledigits’ website and I felt inspiration like never before.
The funniest struggle I have with Lauren’s design right now is that she nose too big for she got damn face. Literally, Hilda characters noses take up a fairly small portion of their faces, and her’s took up WAY too much, leaving little room for her to make facial expressions. But I struggled to find a fix because when I made the nose smaller it just didn’t look like Lauren anymore, so I took this as an opportunity to work on that!
She still has a larger nose than most characters, starting higher up (like her grandad!) and ending lower down (but not quite as low as before). I also made her eyes a little smaller and with a shape similar to Lydia’s (though you can see in some of these I hadn’t quite landed on that yet and her eyes are a bit too big), which works both as a nod to her parentage and because I think it makes the nose look bigger. This still doesn’t leave as much room for the mouth as most other characters, but that’s okay — Lauren is a very private person who keeps her feelings close to her chest, I think it works for her to have subtler expressions, adds to how guarded she is! Oh and I also updated the shape of her hair slightly, just to make it a bit more style accurate.
These changes are pretty small on their own, but I think combined they work well to make Lauren feel a lot more…alive? Far less stiff, anyway. I think she also has a more unique facial structure now, instead of just “what if Johanna was 90% nose”. She’s still got a big old nose and I love it but now she can emote, yay!
This is really all just concept stuff, I’m hoping to get a new fullbody style-ref for Lauren out soon! Now that I’ve improved the main issues I had with her face in the last ref, now it’s onto the silhouette! I want her to read as more of a strong character (though it comes across decently in her current ref, I wanna push it more without being as exaggerated as Ahlberg, which is. A challenge for me lol), streamline her silhouette, and finally make her taller than Johanna like she’s always meant to have been <3 I made her shorter for so long because I thought it would help her read better as her daughter but you know what? That’s dumb actually, she’s tall.
ANYWAYS, thank you for listening in on the annual Lauren redesign, and to the artists behind the show for posting so much amazing inspiring show stopping concept work for free because it makes my autism worse /pos
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figured i'd go ahead and share what i've been working on instead of Yeosang's incredibly late birthday fic time is a social construct from which i'm completely divorced
TORAAAAAAAAA!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY DEAR STAR (LIGHT) ✨️✨️
LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING ON YOUR WHATSAPP GROUP 🤭
hehe, I made you these cute picrew size drawings 🫶 doing anything for you is fun!!!! you're my cute little sister (≧▽≦). May god bless you with everything you ever wished for 💖 and oh yeah! most importantly, a healthy sleep schedule 😹✨️
love you 3000000 (。•̀ᴗ-)✧
TRIS. I AM LITERALLY GONNA SOB THIS MADE MY ENTIRE CENTURY NO JOKE. Oh my God "star(light)" 😭LET ME OBSESS OVER THE WHATSAPP GC FIRST OF ALL 🥹
GOD THAT WAS SO SCARA CODED AND ALSO THAT IS LITERALLY SO IN CHARACTER FOR CHILDE AS WELL??? I ACTUALLY DIED AT THAT HONESTLY ID EAT EVEN THE BURNT CAKE IF THEY MADE IT 😭🫶✨
HELP NOT ALHAITHAM COMING IN WITH HIS MATH HES SO NONCHALANTLY INVESTED ( IDK HOW TO DESCRIBE HIS PERSONALITY PROPERLY BUT YEAH ) ✋😭 AND KAVEH TOO AHAHAHAJDJ HES SICK OF ALHAITHAM 😭 ( also the heart in his name I'm 🤭🫶✨)
AND TRIS I LITERALLY NOTICED THE TIMING OF THIS TOO 🥹 KAVEHS MESSAGE SENT AT 11:29 AND 🥹 AAAH ALL OF THIS IS SO PERFECT I LOVE YOU SO MUCH OMG ?!?
BLADE BEING ADDED TOO I BET HES JUST GONNA GRUMBLE AND SIT THERE, it's okay he can be the decor he's pretty :P AND KAZUHA 🥹 THE "TORAS ARMY OF BROKEN MEN" THING WE TALKED ABOUT TOO ✨
I LOVE THEM ALL DEARLY AND I LOVE YOU MOST OF ALL 😭🫂
ALSO THOSE PICREWS ARE SO SO ADORABLE!!! SISTERS FOR LIFE !!! 😼✨🫶🫂🌻 NDJWKSSNS NOT THE SLEEP SCHEDULE YOURE RIGHT THO I DEF NEED TO IMPROVE IT 😭
“Foul child, bastard and beast/O lost lamb, first to the feast/Come claim if you're able a spot at this table/Mild and meek, down on your knees/For hide and seek./It's time that we feed/Your heart is racing, blood is running cold/Your fractured will is whispering (fly away)/Far Away”
-Scream by Masayoshi Soken