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Published: 2013-09-21 02:28:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 846; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 10
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I went ahead and colored the lineart I did. :3 Goin' oldschool up in here. An 'older', simpler style of an old character of mine. I'd love to one day salvage it but... it's a mess. Probably too far gone.
Teenagers do not generally write awesome things.-----
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Ha! I still keep a story idea/universe in my head that I came up with when I was 8! It's changed a lot over the years, incorporating different ideas and themes that I liked over the years, so it's pretty different than when I first came up with it...but it still relies on a lot of ideas I came up with when I was younger. Which makes ever trying to do the beginning of the story really hard, because it assumes all of these silly, cartoony adventures took place, but it's hard to figure out how to make them fit into what the story currently is in my mind.
But anyway, Ms. Sinclair is really cute! I like the lighthearted, cute, serene look on her face, and how the pose, particularly her arms, support that. Her eyes have this kinda dreamy look in them, and I can almost how she'd walk here, with light, almost skipping or dancing steps.
I love her outfit, particularly the colors. The colors and design of her outfit is simple, but it works really, really well. Everything feels balanced, with the blue trim on her dress, and how the...um, cloth thing wrapped through her arms reverses it. And her cute hair bow fits in nicely, too! Anyway, I like how it all works really well, how cohesive and adorable her outfit is, and how it works so well without a lot of crazy, distracting details and accessories.
...hmm, come to think of it, you always do a good job designing outfits for your characters. They always feel really strong, really distinct and unique, but never too cluttered with unnecessary things. GOOD JOB!
Lol. Though, I feel like her boots are a little bit out of place. Everything else about the character and outfit has this kinda cutesy, soft, lighthearted feel, but the boots are bit heavier and break up that feel a little. Also, they make her feet seem a bit bigger that maybe they should be in comparison to the more dainty features throughout the rest of the pic? I wonder if something like sandals, or some smaller, lighter boots would change it? Or maybe a different color? The brown makes sense, first as boots, and again because it balances out her hair, but maybe if her boots were either white or blue, they wouldn't dominate and stand out as much as they do now?
...and, I do see that you've done another pic of her, so maybe my commenting on this design is moot anyway. 
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Thanks, but yeah, her new design totally trumps this one. XD And yay for more appropriate boots than these ugly clunky things. x.x
My best friend is gonna be helping me and writing stuff for the story she comes from, so that's gonna help A LOT. It's kinda hard to let go of old concepts and stories and tweak things around, even when you know they need tweaking, because of this attachment you feel from it being a childhood thing. But he's there to be like "No, that's not going to work, but this might instead..."
And he's there to tell me that my other stories were beyond saving. Oh were they beyond saving. . . *facepalm*
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Well, with my one idea, I'm too stubborn to let it all go. And I still think about it all the time. But then, I haven't realistically done anything with any of my ideas so it's kind of moot, I guess.
Oh, but I have this folder of this "webcomic idea" I had in high school, and I stumbled on it again a month or two ago when I was shuffling through things, and between reading the "joke ideas" list I had, and remembering the "backstories" of the characters I had it just me me cringe. So awful! It was such a generic "this character is into this kind of games, and that one is into that kind of games and this one is randomly a gargoyle because." And they had the dumbest, made up names where I just put extra letters in nonsensical words. Meh. XD
...anyway. You're welcome.
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Bad concept or not, she's still totes adorbs.
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I LOVE THE COLORS AND SHADING. Seriously shes so cute i love the style you used.
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