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commsroom · 6 months

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Ok so I absolutely love your Hera art.

But

Have you considered

Pink/orange/multicolored Hera

Honestly I feel like warm colors in general just suit her so well.

oh, i don't know! when i ask people to draw hera blue, the reasons for that are: 1) it makes her more immediately recognizable, and 2) i like what it represents! it draws on existing sci-fi imagery of holograms. a projected image of someone who is physically elsewhere. it's associated with water and sky, distance and longing.

physically, i think there are two heras: there's the way people literally perceive her from an outside perspective - formless, or associating her with the hephaestus itself, which is misidentification. i love when people draw eiffel interacting with hera's cameras + monitors very much, but i also think it's clear she feels she's seeing through them, not that she is them. and there's hera as she sees herself in her own mind (and in eiffel's mind, in the finale), where... i really think she just perceives herself as an average, tangible person.

so i don't think she's literally blue, i just think it's a good way to give her a visual presence in art that's closer to her self-perception, while still communicating some sense of distance / disconnect, if that makes sense? if hera had a body and could wear clothes, i think she'd love to try on all sorts of colors!!

#hi i'm so sorry about the delay! you caught me in the middle of eiffel questions #(just moving this part to the tags for clarity but i said before like. i know you mean 'your' as in art done for me of my design #for hera. but i feel like i should still acknowledge all of the wonderful people who have drawn her for me.)#anyway. blue is the hera color to me for all of the above reasons but also that shade of blue looks great with eiffel's bright orange.#i think it can be neat if people give her an orange visor or floating screens etc. to mirror hephaestus uniforms as like. work equipment #and i would love if someone made blue + pink art of hera in like. a trans way. but as a base color to represent her... i don't know #nothing except that shade of blue feels right to me.#i think warm colors would be lovely on her! but i think even that is more effective as like. if she has a body #then it communicates connection and presence and self expression and all of that in contrast. you know.#(though i think she would like blues as well anyway because of that association with the ocean. blue + yellow's a really sunshine-y look.)#thank you for asking!!#and your icon is so cute btw. is that your dog #asks

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