designs dump + update (November 2020) (Patreon)

Happy November, everyone!

So, what have I got to share this month? A whole bunch of half-finished things, actually; mostly character designs I'm working at, though there might be some revisits and other projects in the pipeline as well, so let's just get into it.

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First off, we've got those pictures at the top! Three different characters on display, there, so we'll start with the first one, the blue-eyed blonde with her hair in a braid. No proper name for her yet; she's currently just named "Not-Pecorine", uncreatively so due to the fact that her design was wholly inspired by a character named Pecorine, from game/anime Princess Connect (she's a very upbeat and gluttonous character, and needless to say that's right up my alley when it comes to personalities for my preds).

Not-Pecorine is of course aimed down a slightly different path, more personalized to my own tastes, whatever I can think up to make her stand out as her own character. I'll make a public post about some of that in the future perhaps, but the TL;DR so far is: non-Paeran plopped into Paeratopa, and her love of new experiences and eating tasty things + finding out that everyone in this realm can respawn has simply led her down the path of really enjoying eating tiny people :D

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So, number two! This one is the soft elven-looking girl with slightly greenish hair (I might tweak the hair tint a bit in the future, but very pale is an important detail). She's actually loosely based on another Princess Connect character, funnily enough: Kokkoro, a... soft elven-looking girl with very pale hair. Amazing right!

In this case, there's more I'd like to change; for one, the actual Kokkoro looks very young, and what I'd like to aim for is a character who's plausibly just a short twenty-something (in human years, if she's an actual elf she might technically be older). This one would be a prey character, scratching the itch of having just a very soft, demure, delicate-looking prey for preds like the aforementioned Not-Pecorine to gobble up~

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Third one, the busty girl with pink-tinted hair in buns! Another one with no name as of yet, but that's a little more to be expected, as I only just started working on her a day or so ago. More of a free-form design, just experimenting with various inspirations and trying out new 3D models, but there's a general aim coming up in all of that... Another pred, more sleepy/calm and hedonistic (inspirations from a friend's character I really liked), and just letting things expand from there.

I haven't even decided what she'll be, to be honest, if she'll be another paeran, or a non-paeran in Paeratopa just like Not-Pecorine is, or maybe even a character to drop into the same "the Castle" setting as the Castle Lady design I'd been working on a while back. I think with this one though, I'll stick with the whole free-form idea and just let those details work themselves out!

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Phew this is long already, is there anything else... Well, there's that last picture! This is one idea I've had in mind to revisit of a very old piece I've never been satisfied with, "Yayoi - hotdog helper". I liked the concept at the time, but the execution just really didn't work in my opinion. Well, now I've got a much more up-to-date model of Yayoi, and some models of actual hotdogs rather than hotdog-colored logs, and I'm sure I could do much much better on posing and all that as well, so that's something on the side-burner. :3 Still working out the pose and all but it's already started, as you can see.

There's also some other fresh ideas I'd like to mess around with, maybe figure out a new scene with Momiji, find ways to showcase newer characters, update more of the older ones... I'm trying not to overwhelm myself, but also making sure I don't run out of ideas, so hopefully I'm striking a balance there!

I know I've been working slower this year especially, but at least I do have some excuses for that (this year has been a lot of external stresses, and it's not been doing well for my health either). But it's feeling a bit more productive now, and with more and more of my old characters being brought up-to-date, old content getting sorted, new software getting figured out... I'm starting to return to that point where I can just have an idea and then go work on it, no sidetracks into needing to do this or that first. Fingers crossed and crossed again. ^^