GGaD » Time finally decides to make one of these

GalaxianExplosion · July 14, 2024 18:57:08

That's a girl??

-Galaxian-

Time · July 14, 2024 23:30:35

I can see how she can ambiguous in appearance, but I feel that can also be said about nearly all of my characters. The anime-fication of everyone kinda takes away at defining characteristics

Have have been thinking about exaggerating eyelashes and stuff

Time · July 14, 2024 23:31:00

Or eyes in general

LazyOwlViolet · July 15, 2024 06:55:29

fun fact
irl it's men that typically have long eyelashes not women

Time · July 15, 2024 10:45:38

Yeah, I think I have pretty long eyelashes myself

But something something gender norms and expectations and how people think of things and so forth

Time · August 3, 2024 19:58:33

New character

Say hi

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GalaxianExplosion · August 3, 2024 20:30:14

HI! Are you a guy this time? :D
(Aesthetic on point btw, Time. Love the vibes)

-Galaxian-

Time · August 4, 2024 09:46:58

NOPE! Thanks for the compliment tho

When will the daycome when Time will break the cycle of drawing females????

I will let you know she was originally planned to be a guy but I made her a girl because the party would have been imbalanced.

Oh this is another TTRPG character btw. I've retired Articus, and am soon going to retire Silvis. Sooo bringing in someone new for a new campaign!

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Time · August 4, 2024 12:55:31

The fun thing is that in this campagin we're using FoundryVTT, so I can readily change her token and expressions, so I have a whole set of sprites for different reactions like in a visual novel lol

Echowo · August 4, 2024 14:45:24

She looks so cool owo

Time · August 4, 2024 14:52:09

Thank you, with this character I had a wider range of things to pick and choose from, since the world here is much more diverse and modern. I mean that doesn't really change the character design much now thinking about it, but it does change what background I could put her in ha

Idk if you could tell, but she's also a bird-person. I tried hinting at it in the design

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Echowo · August 4, 2024 21:55:25

I can see it in the hair :0 which my first thought when seeing the hair was both weirdly "bird" and "axolotl" XD

SpecterTheGreat · August 4, 2024 23:22:46

What!!!! Time that's so cool! Look at that background foreground like ofc yes I love the character design but I think the background just really takes the cake omg???
Well I mean it's not JUST the background but also the fact that the coloring on the character goes just perfect with the lighting around! Hair looking amazing btw

Also on your previous picture, I was 100% sure that was a guy too, actually surprised that it turned out to be a girl lol

Time · August 5, 2024 00:50:00

I can def see axolotl. Actually when I showed off the design one of the DMs guessed axolotl too. I also tried making her cloak vaguely look like a bird wing (see the slanted end)

Also thanks Spec! I used a good amount of reference on this one. I think I did pretty good for my skill level. I wanted to make the entire canvas cinemascope ratio but that is a lot of background drawing so I went against it lol.

But also... Interesting.... you found my last character to be a guy as well... I mean, that isn't too much coming from you since I do know your preference of men that look rather... feminine, but two is the possible start of a pattern. What made you think that, if you don't mind me asking?

Echowo · August 5, 2024 00:54:31

Ooh, I didn't notice that detail before, but now looking at the cloak owo I can see it she has a very cool design 10/10

What kind of brush do you use for the background? I love the texture

Time · August 5, 2024 01:54:16

Most of the texture stuff like the clouds were made with the CSP Pro's dry ink brush, but a slightly edited to not have some weird coloring effect that goes on with the standard brush

SpecterTheGreat · August 6, 2024 21:14:08

Time wrote:
But also... Interesting.... you found my last character to be a guy as well... I mean, that isn't too much coming from you since I do know your preference of men that look rather... feminine, but two is the possible start of a pattern. What made you think that, if you don't mind me asking?

I haven't thought a lot about it but I think it might be the way you do facial structures in a more solid way. Generally in anime-y styles, women tend to have sharper chins while men have more of a defined jawbone structure, if that makes sense? Idk what ele really would be there, I don't use eyelashes as a way to differentiate between gender (just as part of design) because I give everyone eyelashes regardless of that so maybe that's just it.
Also the hairstyle in that piece just feels more masculine to me for some reason I know it's not a super relevant thing but yeah

Time · August 7, 2024 01:17:29

This is some pretty insightful feedback Spec, thanks for telling

I will admit when I look at most of my current characters now, some do be looking pretty androgynous

It's the PMoon artstyle affecting me, that's what I say.

It's a ramble but in Project Moon games there are characters are very obviously male or female, but for others it's practically impossible to tell (especially in Library of Runia). Plus PM doesn't really care about female characters having male names and male characters having female names, so that desn't add much to help with that lol

SpecterTheGreat · August 7, 2024 08:20:55

I kneel to PMoon for their androgynous designs and names but I definitely can notice certain elements shared between them and your art, even from beforehand. I think it's mostly the lines and structure. This is just my impression but I feel like you go more towards geometrical shapes and straight lines for construction instead of more organic shapes and curved lines.
Like I have trouble when my construction lines are too straight so I opt for giving them more of a "swirl", a difference especially visible in how the hairstyles you draw have a lot of spikes instead of being more flowy, even in longer haired characters. I think it also affects even the hands, as I've heard that male characters should be depicted with more square-looking fingers and hands while females have more slender hands (and I think this is why almost everyone I draw looks femenine, I can't do that difference well enough yet).
But anyways on this last piece I think you did really well, I can see the fingers being more rounded instead of boxes and I can also see a variety of line structures in the clothing.

Time · August 7, 2024 11:27:45

No I definitely get what you're putting down. Like I have also noticed that even when I try and make more curly and swirly hair as you mentioned, they end up still being pretty spikey.

Same with the hands, I actually really prefer boxy and square hands no matter what because they're easier to draw lol. I'm going to attribute me thinking it's cool and ok to do so due to JJK's hands. While I may not like the story, I do like the artstyle a lot (it's also interesting to see how it has changed over the years)

But now that you mentioned the little changes, I can see them too. That's nice. Thanks 👍

Time · August 25, 2024 00:48:52

I was finally getting around to practicing chibi characters, featuring a certain birdbrain

I'm sure that you can see it, but I really didn't think about putting too much effort or perfecting things. Just a quick practice (by my standards)

I can see loads of issues that I'd like to change, but you know just putting some art out here to do so

I realize I've actually never talked much on the birdbrain. She's a bit mean. I didn't plan on making her very mean, but she bullies other people. So she's mean. I meant her to be a responsible person, but I think she's somewhere inbetween a responsible person and a troublemaker. She will make trouble, but she has a brain so she won't do anything extremely stupid.

I think she may have a bit of a napoleon complex, that too. But that's not because she's short. That's because she's not the most mentally stable (tbh if you're not making a TTRPG character mentally unstable, what are you doing???). Ik it doesn't really on the unemotive expressions I've shown here. But it does show on the sprite list.

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Time · August 26, 2024 00:41:18

Time wrote:
I was finally getting around to practicing chibi characters, featuring a certain birdbrain

Not my homethread but update! She's done something really really stupid and is going insane! 😍😍😍

Echowo · August 26, 2024 01:01:59

Time wrote:
Time wrote:
I was finally getting around to practicing chibi characters, featuring a certain birdbrain

Not my homethread but update! She's done something really really stupid and is going insane! 😍😍😍

Slay! ✨️

Time · August 26, 2024 11:50:04

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss!

Only that she's just gaslight

And the person she's gaslighting is herself.

Echowo · August 26, 2024 15:59:11

As she should, honestly

SpecterTheGreat · August 27, 2024 22:09:44

Forumers after making the most traumatized and mentally unhealthy character: ✌🏻❤

Thinking back I don't think I recall you ever drawing a chibi before (or at least posting chibi art) so this is definitely differently. Chibi proportions are tough ngl and I admire that you drew out the proportion lines at the side xD honestly it looks really good overall and I think the only thing I would mention is in regards to the coloring that the blush thingy on her cheeks looks kind of off. I'd suggest maybe making it a bit more to the orange side so it blends with the skin tone better, cause rn it doesn't look like blush it just feels a bit weird and grayed out area.
I was about to remark on the inspiration for the chibi itself but I just saw the image name... so yeah I can't joke if it's true xD

(Any chance you might show the sprite list? 👀)

Time · August 28, 2024 01:34:49

SpecterTheGreat wrote:
Forumers after making the most traumatized and mentally unhealthy character: ✌🏻❤

Real

SpecterTheGreat wrote:
Thinking back I don't think I recall you ever drawing a chibi before (or at least posting chibi art) so this is definitely differently. Chibi proportions are tough ngl and I admire that you drew out the proportion lines at the side xD honestly it looks really good overall and I think the only thing I would mention is in regards to the coloring that the blush thingy on her cheeks looks kind of off. I'd suggest maybe making it a bit more to the orange side so it blends with the skin tone better, cause rn it doesn't look like blush it just feels a bit weird and grayed out area.
I was about to remark on the inspiration for the chibi itself but I just saw the image name... so yeah I can't joke if it's true xD

The reason why the proportion lines are there is because this was my very first time drawing a chibi lol. I totally forgot I did a blush thingy, and tbh on my screen I can't even see it, but that may be the nature of my current setting (after dark with barely any light). I didn't actually want to think too much about the linework or accuracy of really anything in this little chibi drawing. I kinda just wanted to get the idea of it with this one. Nevertheless, that piece of advice sounds pretty helpful! I'll look to apply it later on. I'll try orange for sure since I think I went with a pretty desaturated red/pin. Thanks!

SpecterTheGreat wrote:
(Any chance you might show the sprite list? 👀)

Coincidentally I did organize and create enough sprites for me to be satisfied as of the moment, so sure why not, I'll get them here at some point.

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Time · August 28, 2024 12:55:37

Sprite list for the birdbrain. There is a lot of them so I lowered the size by a lot

Angry sprites 1-5

confused sprite 1

mischievous sprite 1

eepy

I was considering adding "having a nightmare" variant, as you do with characters with trauma, but I HIGHLY doubt I'll even use this sprite in the first place so I didn't want to do more work.

embarrassed sprites 1-2

I-it's not like I like you or anything! Baka!

fear sprite 1

Bittersweet sprites1-3

happy sprites 1-2

sadness sprites 1-5

What I find really funny is the ratio from happy to sad sprites lol

serious sprite 1

treated as an alternate sprite for the default expression (the which was the second image of her back in the first post I made on her)

shocked sprites 1-2

As you can see some of the expressions were reused, but a lot of it was mixing and matching stuff.
Actually working on this stuff did help me with practicing emotions a bit. Don't get to do that too often with how deadpan most of my characters look.

Time · August 28, 2024 12:58:25

Huh looks like postimage didn't want to downsize my images. That's fine.

I also realized I never said her name. for the goofs I'm going to keep it a secret for no reason.
No it is not the file names either.

Time · August 28, 2024 13:06:41

There are some unused assets (idk what else to call them)

Such as a :3 mouth, and a pouting mouth