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ngl when the s3 trailer dropped it was so funny seeing that frida & david got entire new outfits and hairstyles, changed up their whole colour palette, and then literally ALL that changed for hilda is she has shorter hair and got rid of skirts. girl’s on the baby gay to butch lesbian pipeline fr

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Erik got the Ernesto de la Cruz treatment there lol

Domestic Eco-Terrorism episode of Hilda my beloved 🥰

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Over here! :) Love your art btw!

hellooooo? any hilda fandom people here?

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*In the living room*

News Broadcaster: "We now head on over to the Trolberg city walls, where we can see the intruders."

Kaisa: Well, this is interesting.

News Broadcatser: "It appears that they're trying to disable the bell's automatic system!"

Frida: I'm not one for terrorism, but I hope they succeed.

Kaisa: I don't know about you, but those people are complete idiots. Don't they know the security measures they have in there? I don't even think that they hid their faces well, if at all!

News Broadcaster: "And we have their faces right now!"

Frida: Yeah, there's no denying that-

*The TV shows Hilda and Johanna breaking into a bell tower*

Kaisa:

Frida: Wait

In Unison: THAT'S OUR IDIOTS!

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Alternate ending:

Frida: That's technically an emergency.

Kaisa:

Kaisa: Ok yeah fair enough.

Kaisa: Care to explain why you've been using magic outside of your studies?

Frida: Well, you see-

Hilda: Hey Guys! Ho-

*Trips*

Hilda: WOAH-

*Frida immediately uses her magic to prevent Hilda from falling forwards, placing her in an upright position.*

Hilda: Thanks Frida!

*Frida turns to see her mentor staring at her with a deadpan stare*

Frida: Am- am i in trouble?

Kaisa:

Kaisa, who has done this numerous times with Johanna: Not at all!

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Kaisa: Care to explain why you've been using magic outside of your studies?

Frida: Well, you see-

Hilda: Hey Guys! Ho-

*Trips*

Hilda: WOAH-

*Frida immediately uses her magic to prevent Hilda from falling forwards, placing her in an upright position.*

Hilda: Thanks Frida!

*Frida turns to see her mentor staring at her with a deadpan stare*

Frida: Am- am i in trouble?

Kaisa:

Kaisa, who has done this numerous times with Johanna: Not at all!

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Johanna: "So, how's your adventure today?"

Hilda: "Pretty boring."

Alfur: "PRETTY BORING??? We almost died because of a forest giant!"

Hilda: "Atleast we didn't see ourselves die twice, and that's all that matte-"

*Hilda realises that she said that out loud, and switfly covered her mouth.*

Johanna: "...You WHAT??"

*Too late for that, though*

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Yea, with how siblings work, and the fact that she taunts death in the face almost everyday, that makes complete sense. Also, those are some GREAT expressions!

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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