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Thank you :) I think this is lovely but I couldn’t choose just ten! Here’s some hearts for everyone.
Aye good peeps I’m just dropping this new PFP because I grew tired of seeing the one I have had up until now.
Just for the record yeah that blonde gremlin over there is a brave attempt at self-portrait of the creator (me), I wouldn’t put just a random lass there lol
Artwork by itself down below because this is mighty chaotic and I’m aware v
i hope wherever madridista-again/Mordecai626 is now they're living their best life knowing they carried 2010's cartoon fandom on their fucking back w their uploads
◜GOETIA ICONS 𓂃 Mordecai, Mortimer. Self-indulgent, requested by nobody. Art and characters belong to @/tetramera.◞
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i would love to ask(if you're comfortable enough, if not please ignore this) if the trans vers of your cat people retain their original hair(guys dont have any/indistinct like rocky, girls do like ivy, mitzi etc.) or they look like the gender they aligned with, or is it fully up to the characters' views themselves?
I get why the presence of hair on female presenting characters creates a sort of troublesome binary. It's not really my intention to treat it as necessarily connected to sex or gender, though. It's really more about how I choose to depict the hairstyle types themselves.
My priorities are creating distinct silhouettes that I feel match the personality of the character, and capturing something of that Jazz Age look. It just happens that hairstyles more typically worn by women at the time tend to be the more iconic, immediately recognizable styles.
To answer your question more directly, though...
If I were drawing a trans woman who I imagined would wear an Art Deco finger waved bob, then I would draw her with hair much the same way I draw Mitzi. If I were drawing a trans man with a shorter cut, slicked back hair, or an undercut, I'd draw him with the same forehead tuft + cheek-fur approach I draw for characters like Wes, Rocky, or Zib.
If I were drawing a cis woman who I imagined with a sort of crew cut, I'd focus more on giving her a distinct head and cheek-fur shape than on trying to draw really, really short hair around her ears. And so forth.
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Here's a bit about my thought process for these design choices:
Does the character wear their hair somewhat long? Shoulder-length, a bob, something with some notable exterior dimension that really affects the character silhouette? Something that screams '1920s'? If yes, then I'll probably draw them with actual hair. On the other hand, if I imagine the character to be someone who'd wear their hair quite short and closer to the scalp, I'll usually take a more abstract approach. I find drawing really short haircuts on animal-like heads with big ears to be pretty awkward - I never struck on a more literal design solution for that that I was happy with. It doesn't augment the character's silhouette the same way a longer or more dimensional hairstyle does, so I try to define a distinctive shape with extended fur instead, in a way that might imply something about their character corollary to the way a hairstyle might (i.e. Freckle's tiger tufts and Mordecai's sharp angles).
I hope that makes some sense! Or at least clarifies my intentions somewhat.