#character re-design

[panic-and-procrastinate-drawing]

so i did a jason redesign :)

[talesofedo]

My re-design of Mizu, the protagonist of Blue Eye Samurai.

The original series design for Mizu gives her a couple of expensive accessories, specifically her traveling cloak and her eyeglasses. (And yes, I realize she is supposed to have made her own eyeglass frames, but Japanese manufacture of glass was still new at that time and the lenses themselves would likely have been expensive.)

I kept the travel cloak design, but as many surviving originals are made from striped fabric, I chose to go with that.

She's wearing tattsuke bakama, rather than having separate, removable kyahan (gaiters). This was a really common style for traveling, and since Blue Eye Samurai takes place in the 1650s, I went with a contrasting, rather than matching, waist tie. That style of contrasting colors would have been a bit more of an old fashioned look at the time already.

She's wearing straw waraji instead of the black sandals she has in the series, and warajigake tabi, tabi with reinforcements in the toe split and the front of the foot that made them more durable for walking long distances.

I switched the short, samue-like jacket she's wearing in the series for an actual kimono, but used the water pattern of the fabric she is using as an obi in the series as the pattern for her kimono.

Since she's trying to pass for a ronin on her travels, I switched her hat for a sandogasa, which was a common design for traveling, and gave her a short sword in addition to her meteoric iron sword. (The lack of samurai carrying two swords in the series drove me absolutely bonkers.) I kept the un-wrapped rayskin design of her tsuka, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. 😅

I also changed the design of her eyeglasses to one that was common during the Edo period, using string instead of folding temples. The eyeglass design I'm using here is from the oldest known pair in Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu's reading glasses, but that same style was worn right up until the introduction of modern western eyeglasses at the end of the Edo period.

[sanctus-ingenium]

art is difficult so here i present one of my study sketches cleaned up a little

[danicalzone]

Donna and Child

[0046incognito]

server room

[sheyhem]

Just got a letter informing me that my good friend Jonathan is going on a business trip to Transylvania in a bit under two weeks! I'm sure he will have a wonderful time on his travels! Can't wait to hear all about it through his letters!

[bortmcjorts]

[ID: a drawing of wander from wander over yonder. he's looking up to the side and smiling, standing with one hand holding the brim of his hat. end ID]

spoon!

[hazelnutnebula]

and what if they were in the residence. like evil.. ☠️🩸

[mooneyedmoth]

You've Got It Twisted

Velvette has been so fucking hard to figure out because her og design is just kind of a human person with red eyes and a lot of her symbols and motifs are the same as Val.

for my design, i decided to make her Frankenstien-y because in life she was always contorting and changing her appearance and personality to be what people want. so it's like she's a stitched-together amalgamation of all the different personas she's had over the years.

[pumpkster]

[katabay]

ANDREY STAMATIN

Keep a close eye on Peter. You'd become desperate and turn into a villain without him.

I spend a lot of time thinking about daniil and peter, but something just clicked into place for me with andrey. so!

I am. currently untangling this thread of thoughts about the stamatin twins and daniil and this kind of. triangle that's happening. a three fold bullet for sure, the kind of recognition-awareness-understanding where three people become one, but to step back from that. when daniil and andrey talk, there's a specific shape of peter that stands in his conversational absence. so: triangle formation. it's opposite-adjacent-complementary to daniil and peter's conversations. it all goes back to that first conversation you have with andrey. it's giving knife. love it!

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

[vinililacart]

my old hazbin hotel fan redesigns edit bc i'm so hyped!! >:) (i also made a before and after video)

[medusaspeach]

Chiron and Achilles wip ✨

[ocmakerofcanada]

Made my first sketch of my own version of Nicole from the visual novel game Class of 09

[slippy-socks]

love that grand piano ghoulette at the la ritual,,,, i think i’m gonna call her eden

[aroaceleovaldez]

Revisited my old vld au (i blame @jankwritten) and remade my old character sheets about it. tweaked some things, struggled to remember what the hell all my notes were about from like 5 years ago, etc etc. Much happier with the set-up now honestly.

Stars vs circles indicate designated paladin/main pilot of that lion. Or castle in the castle's case.

feel free to ask about it cause I have a lot of random notes jotted down.