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Otakatt — Mirabelle Redesign
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Published: 2017-08-05 21:18:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 472; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 9
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I wasn't happy with a character's design so I went for a rehaul. The original had more generic pigtails and the busty design seemed a little too on the nose for a bard so I went for something cuter and hopefully a little less generic. Also went for pastel colors instead of the much darker color scheme I was rocking before. Overall I like it better, but I'm not 100% sold on the hair.Related content
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So, she's super cute!
I love the expression. I don't know exactly what you have in mind for her character/personality, but you mention that she's a bard, so in my mind that means someone who's outgoing, gregarious, lively. I think that comes across in her expression really well -- her eyes are warm and friendly, but with a kinda playful hint to them; she kinda looks like she's got an amused look, like she's teasing or telling a joke she's daring you to not laugh at. Her smile is big and toothy, and feels like she's laughing as she smiles, like she's hamming it up a bit. It sells this idea I have of a bard's personality -- it's really vibrant, and maybe even pushed a bit like she's putting on a performance, like she's trying to make you laugh and smile. I like it a lot.
Her outfit it super cute! I really like how you make colorful costumes for your fantasy characters. Something in a lot of fantasy art that is a bit of a turn-off for me is how gritty and dark and that isn't really the aesthetic that appeals to me. I like how you go in different, colorful directions with your designs. But beyond the colors, I think her outfit is cute, too. I like the jacket, how it's short around her body and long, with big open sleeves. I like how you added another bit of the purple outer-coat things as a buttcape (for lack of a better word!) because it balances the simple, white dress. The long sleeved upper and the short skirt works, I think -- it adds to the cheery, playful look she has all around.
I always mention it, but I love your coloring. I love the warm, kinda saturated skintone and how everything works together.
As far as her hair goes...I wonder if the asymmetry of the pigtails is part of what concerns you about it? On one side it kinda juts out to the side, on the other it droops down more.
Anyway, I love the design. The outfit and the colors are great, but her expression, with the bright, cheery smile is what really stands out to me.
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Thanks! Pigtails aren't really supposed to be asymmetrical, that was just me failing at foreshortening as usual. But that's not really my problem with them, I think I'm just not quiiite sold on the hair just yet is all. Sometimes when designing a character for an actual purpose it takes me ages to get it *right*.
And yeeees I love colors. It's why I love the aesthetic of the first 3 Breath of Fire games so much. It's fantasy, but it's so vibrant. World and characters both.
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Vibrant, yes, that's the kind of fantasy worlds that really appeals to me. : )
I never got to play the BoF games. RPGs held no interest to me until much later, so I missed most 16-bit RPGs when they came out. I got really into RPGs in the early 2000s, mostly on Playstation (and Game Boy/Color lol) Which is a shame, because even when I was a "I don't get RPGs" kid, I always thought the visual styles and characters I saw in game magazines and ads looked great.
I've been going through some old game magazines I used to read when I was a kid now that I found there's huge troves of them scanned on Archive.org, and it kinda makes me laugh that the ads for BoF1 have a very 90's American comic style to them.
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Ugh, those old ads... Old American ads and covers for games in general were kind of terrible, but hilarious. I can't understand the thought process though. Of course kids are gonna like anime or more cartoonized looking things? Not sure why they would try to make things more... realistic. Like the early Mega Man box arts...
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As I go through those old magazines and ads, I really wish I could've been an artist or graphic designer for a game magazine in the early to mid 90's. There's all kinds of crazy stuff that I think would've been so fun to work on...and sometimes there's little spot illustrations where I think "man, I could've done better than that" and I rarely feel so confident about my skills. lol
The BoF add is just so funny because it look like some crazy 90s Image comics thing, but it still uses those bright colors, so it's this funny mashup. And yeah, some of that old box art is terribly, but it has a lot of charm to it. Like, it'd be so interesting to know what those artists were thinking, how much thought they gave into it, or how deliberate it was to do stuff that was incongruous with the actual game. I got that "Art of Atari" book a while back, and haven't really gotten into it, but the idea of how these artists were interpreting things and trying to paint a picture and create a world for you that the systems' graphics couldn't is an interesting thought.
Speaking of Mega Man box art, we all think of the Mega Man 1 art, and the US Mega Man 2 art, but I saw some other, maybe European, country's box art for those game, I think, and it's they're even wilder:
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All that said, I do find a lot of charm in those bizarre US box arts. I am driven by nostalgia, so that's part of it, but also I'm just kinda fascinated by how bizarrely they interpreted things.
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The catman... face thing in the background of the MM2 box is killing me.
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I'm guessing it's supposed to be an air tiki from the airman stage, but...thinking that only makes it worse. lol It just looks like a some portly old guy pouting and having a hissy fit...or constipated. lol
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If they were going for the air tiki... no. Just... no. 2/10
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