- gas mask is because, while overworld air won’t kill him, it does tend to make netherborns sick. it’s assumed this is for the same reasons that piglins and hoglins zombify
- the claw thing is literally used to rip peoples hearts out. it doesn’t get used very often, the last time was probably over a hundred years ago, but it’s kept around as jewellery and for intimidating people
- he’s a prince in the same way that adventure time princesses are princesses aka he’s the sole ruler of his kingdom, no king or queen. princedom then i guess?
- the red gems are like. compressed netherack. the same way you can compress coal to make diamonds irl i guess
- don’t question the pants there is no tactical advantage to them besides maybe. better airflow in a hot environment?? but honestly i just thought they looked cool
- also don’t question the long hair idk why i did that but i’m glad i did. i didn’t draw it but i do imagine there’s some sort of ornate golden comb thing tucked into the top of the braid. you know the kind
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
[image description: two uncoloured digital comics of Joel and Jimmy from Empires SMP.
First comic - Jimmy sits in the foreground, looking up at the giant muscular statue of Joel in Tumble Town. In the next panel he is looking away, blushing while laughing to himself, saying “He’s so annoying ha ha ha”
Second comic - Joel gestures casually with a hand on his hip as he says “I was wondering if you’d make a child with me?” Jimmy begins taking of his vest looking determined, saying “I never thought you’d ask.” End ID]
Grabbing myself by the shoulders and screaming: IT IS OKAY TO NOT WANT TO BE COMPLETELY BINARY MALE LOOKING, IT IS OKAY TO WANT TO BE IN BETWEEN MALE AND COMPLETELY NEUTRAL, IT IS OKAY TO WANT TO LOOK LIKE AN ANDROGYNOUS GUY, YOU ARE NOT A TRANS MAN STOP TRYING TO FORCE YOURSELF INTO BEING BINARY AND THEN FEELING GUILTY BECAUSE YOU DON’T WANT TO BE A FULL MAN, YOUR TRANSITION GOAL IS COMPLETELY NORMAL AND NOT HARMFUL, JUST BE HAPPY FOR ONCE AND ACTUALLY WORK TOWARDS THE BODY YOU NEED INSTEAD OF STRESSING OUT ABOUT NOT BEING ‘TRANS ENOUGH’ BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT A MAN
one of the worst feelings ever is wanting to write but your hands hurt too much or the words just don’t want to work so you just sit there staring at a half finished doc with tears in your eyes bc you want to write and you need to write but everything is telling you that you can’t
finally catching up on some of my tags — thank you to @loveislarryislove for the tag !!!
Rules: Make a 24-hour poll with the names of your WIPs, let it run, then write one sentence for every vote the winner received.
i’m not including a few wips that i’ve already posted a few snippets for (cult leader louis au, interior design louis x gardener harry inspired by staring across the room by the lovely @allwaswell16, etc) so i can give other ones that i’ve also been working on recently / that i started a while ago but accidentally abandoned a chance lol
Okay listen I can't tell whether this is stupid or funny but I can't stop thinking about it and I think you might vibe with this one?
Steve and Eddie go on their first date, and have their first kiss, and when they get back they have a moment like that one scene from friends? Where Eddie goes to see the Corroded Coffin boys, and Steve gets Robin over so they can talk about their date.
And Eddie is blushing and giggling and twirling his hair and kicking his feet, hanging out in Gareth's room. And the CC boys are talking to him, asking him questions and stuff like full on sleepover mode. Did he treat you right? Where did he take you? Did he kiss you? What was he like? And Eddie talks about how Steve opened doors for him, and bought him flowers, and treated him to the full first date experience. Going into detail about how Steve cradled his jaw as they kissed, how he moved his hand to tangle in Eddie's curls. How it was gentle and tender and romantic and passionate and Eddie has been fully swept off of his feet
And then Hard Cut to Steve and Robin lounging like animals on Steve's couch, watching Fast Times, drinking beer and eating pizza and Robin is like
"Did you kiss him?"
"Yeah."
"With tongue?"
MOMO!!!!! I can see this SO CLEARLY it’s like a parallel of the grease scene during summer loving it eddie being sandy and Steve being Danny and that is quiet frankly HILARIOUS.
I have legit nothing to add to this other than, if I could draw I’d be all over this oh my GOD
Art motivation hasn’t really been coming and going when I want it to come lately, and school’s near-approaching eheheh…..But! I thought I’d give a little wip teaser at a thing I’ve been working on. Hopefully I can get it done as soon as I can ehe ;)
kind of sick of other lgbt people acting like Go Out Clubbing Or You’re Basically Straight is at all a mindset that’s not deranged. Sorry would love to meet your arbitrary standards for being gay enough but i can barely walk 👍 don’t think ill be dragging my cane to the club but you guys have fun