I'm opening 1 slot for a skin sketch
- Only human champions (Champions like Ahri/Soraka & Nami are also okay)
- No mecha skins
- Skins for League ocs are okay (with references)
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Artist Spotlight: Sean Tay
Role: Splash Artist
Twitter - ArtStation - Instagram
In light of Riot Games laying off 11% of their staff globally, I want to make a series of posts highlighting the portfolios of those affected, so that we can appreciate their contributions to the world of Runeterra and continue to support them. You can find a full list of those known to be affected here.
Pool Party Orianna & Taliyah (source)
PsyOps Pyke & Vi (sources 1, 2)
Sea Dog Yasuo (source)
Odyssey Kha'Zix (source)
Mecha Kingdoms Leona (source)
Hextech Sejuani (source)
High Noon Hecarim (source)
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I have another slot available for a skin sketch
- Only human champions (Champions like Ahri/Soraka & Nami are also okay)
- No mecha skins
- Skins for League ocs are okay (with references)
Please send me a DM first :D
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First saw one of your videos in 2018, I think! When Kai'Sa was released... lol. I was so looking forward to her release, but finally seeing her design completely soured me on it, and none of my friends saw a problem with the discrepancy between her character's Premise and the design's Visual Language.
Naturally, I looked for like-minded people on the world wide web, and found your video! It articulated Kai'Sa's main issues better than I ever could and was cathartic to me. Been subscribed since then. 😊
Kai'sa is like 90% such a great character, and then 10% a collection of the single most wrong-headed character design decisions you could possibly make to communicate why she is such a great character.
"I am a horrifying monster, everyone naturally shuns me, I am alienated from humanity! They will always hate me for what I have become!" broods the supermodel in the skin-tight bodysuit with perfect makeup, immaculate hair and no scars, who very occasionally wears a slightly spooky helmet.
In the official announcement comic they juxtapose her sculpted, perfect ass and objectively gorgeous face with an angsty monologue about how her awful outside appearance will forever leave normal people in terror of her terrible visage. In the official announcement.
The artist who did the splash art for Hollowspun at least had the good sense to try to dial up the strange textures and fucked up geometry of the suit to make her look weirder and more insectoid, so that it is at least moderately visually plausible that someone would be repulsed and terrified by her appearance.
There's also the sensible basic visual storytelling idea of "oh hey what if instead of showing her entire and obviously normal human face we intentionally cover it up so it creates the kind of scary visual implication that she is imprisoned within her Void armor? That her humanity is a thing smouldering under an inhuman surface, repressed and hidden away by a decade of lethal peril?
And that maybe Kai'sa actually actively pushes people away and tries to frighten them because she's terrified that she can't protect them and facing the prospect of losing her entire community to the Void again is simply to painful to face?
AND WHAT IF WE PAIRED HER UP WITH THE GIRL WHOSE WHOLE ENTIRE THING IS FOUND FAMILY AND LOVE OF COMMUNITY???
WHO REACHES OUT FOR HER EVEN THOUGH SHE IS ACTIVELY TRYING TO BE HOSTILE???
What if we did that instead of juxtaposing a perfectly sculpted ass in a spandex with the words "maybe someday they will accept what I have become"? What if that?"
... anyway, I have extremely normal feelings about Kai'sa and her story and her character design. I have thought about this a normal amount. For legal reasons I am not planning to throw rocks at Riot HQ until they release more Kai'sa/Taliyah stories.
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something i really really really really love is how across almost every single universe yasuo is portrayed as being really good with kids/teenagers + how coincidentally every one he’s portrayed with shares narrative traits with him. yasuo grew up misunderstood and isolated just like jinx. annie and taliyah, just like him, have been blessed by a great, uncontrollable power that they don’t quite know how to manage. joab is obviously meant to parallel him as a child, under the submission of his brother who he respects more than anyone else.
and i think this is intentional because it really tells us so MUCH about yasuo’s character. the world has not been kind to him. he lives under circumstances that force him to be aggressive, to be violent, to kill. but, despite all this, the fact that his true nature is kind is noticeable. it comes through in the way he treats these children, the elderly, the way he forgives riven because she knows she did not mean to cause him the hurt she did, the way he treats ahri despite knowing she’s killed and could again. he knows when it is that people need scorn and when it is that they need kindness. he knows to show these lonely children the compassion he did not have as a boy so they don’t turn out the way he did. because his inherent nature is geared to be that kind and protective and he just doesn’t get the chance to show it. because he’s a good person
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