#@astrosolasta

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Sorry for the spam liking! Just found you and I adore the way you draw Sabo! How did you find that style for him?

Thank you for your kind words and interest in my design process! I will not lie to you, the majority of the design choices i made did not have any deeper meaning other than “I want to”.

However i will explain my thought process to you at least because i love explaining my designs :)

Sorry its kinda long

I love to design characters and whenever i draw any character that isnt my own, im going to wind up putting my own spin on them in some way.

I like sabo’s base design a lot and I wanted to keep that same kind of aesthetic and feel because it is very iconic to him.

First and foremost, i must say that i just absolutely hate when anime gives blonde characters… Aggressively Yellow Hair. Like this shade of yellow is offensive to my eyes. I like using a more desaturated tan color for his hair cuz i think it just makes it look a lot more soft and fluffy

Speaking of fluffy, his hair’s gotta be fluffy. If you ever catch me drawing Sabo without fluffy hair? Shoot me dead. Drawing him without Pantoine-Pro-V-Volumizing-Ass hair is a crime punishable by death where I’m from.

For his eyes, I really just tried to find an eye shape that translated well from his canon eyes into my style. He’s got some big ol peepers on him and they're not angled in anyway really, so i just gave him big almond shaped eyes and called it a day.

I like to give him deep eye bags because i like to imagine that he just doesnt get much sleep :) also i like how it makes the bright blue eye color i give him pop.

I think its a pretty well accepted design choice to draw his face scar a lot more gnarly than it is in canon so i wont explain too much of that. I just really dont think getting shot in the face with a canon ball would result in that tiny little paper cut scar. Though i will admit my sabo’s scar is quite tame compared to most other’s interpretations of it.

I color in his upper lip like Kim Possible simply because I like to. I think it looks good and i also have problems drawing thinner lips so its kinda just a thing i do to make drawing easier.

Much like the dark upper lip reason, I also give Sabo pointy K9 teeth because I like it. I think its a cool little nod to his dragon schtick he got going on and I think it makes him look cool.

His snakebite piercings that I give him are a nod to his dragon schtick, as well. Sometimes I forget to draw them, but I always mean to.

thats everything i can think of rn. Thanks again for the ask :)

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