#character design talks

[sunlitmcgee]

another c!ranboo design I love? Him with no visible mouth! Just flat skin that gets pulled apart all gooey and stretchy when he’s mad and his jaw unhinges. Otherwise when he talks his face just moves a little like he’s speaking through a mask.

It’s cute for c!Ranboo and calls back to the CC since the mask is part of his brand, in a sense. Double win! Very neat!

#dream smp #character design talks #c!ranboo

[skyflyinginaction]

Character Design Talks: Ventus

Alright, time for my 3rd favorite character of the KH series: Ventus, aka Ven. The main reason why Ven is one of my favorite characters is mainly that he looked like Roxas. I was initial attracted to him due to his strong resemblance, but as I played the game I came to love  him even more as a character I remember a long time ago before BBS came out I watched the earlier game trailers on the computer just to see him.

Like most of the KH characters his character design is centered around connections this is seen best in his outfit. The most interesting thing about Ven’s character design is that he looked like a fusion of both Roxas and Sora's appearance.

Personality-wise Ven's appearance is centered on Roxas but retains elements of Sora's design in his design. Like Roxas, Ven has a lot of details that correlate to both his character and his role in the story by adding kh chi in the complication. The reason why Ven and Roxas look alike is that even the heart entered Sora’s body, Ven’s presence influenced Roxas’ appearance Kh bbs ultimania clarified the connection. Ven is created to have an important connection to Sora and Roxas.

Name:

Let's start with Ven’s name. Like most characters named by Tetsuya Nomura, he is named based on an element, Ventus means “Wind” in Latin this goes with his inquisitive, cheerful, and outgoing personality resembling a windy breeze. His name shares the sky theme with Sora, which means sky in Japanese, highlighting his connection to him and his outgoing personality which is similar to Sora’s.

Design:

As I stated before in this post, Ven’s outfit highlights his connection to Sora and Roxas because he is created to have an important connection to them. There is a prominent X in Ven’s clothing which is used to activate his armor.

His armor is gold and green, green is the wind referencing Ven’s sky theme and gold signifies light and Ven’s alliance to it. The X has a lot of symbolism that references Ven's role in the story.

X is pronounced chi or key Inspired by the Latin letter x which is one of the keywords in bbs, The Key aspect in X infers how Ven was used by Xehanort to create the x blade by making him fight Ven and Vanitas so they can complete the keyblade. The x of the greek alphabet is produced key has the meaning of death in it, The x his and the rest of the bbs trios grievous fate in bbs X means death; this means that it means death to his heart if not saved by Sora if hadn't taken refuge inside Sora. The emblem at the center of Ven’s chest is the emblem of their master, who references him being one of the apprentices of Master Ericus.

Okay let's talk about Ven’s outfit,

There was something I realized when I was writing this post: if I looked closely, his clothes are a fusion of Roxas's twilight town clothes and Sora’s KH2 outfit.

Ven’s clothes in his design are similar to Roxas's having the same jacket and wristband. The color in his pants is similar to what Roxas wore if you look at both of their designs together. Ven’s pants are taken from Sora’s pants with the ball out part resembling Sora’s chap style shorts in KH2. Another fusion is seen in the jacket he wears is a fusion of Roxas’ jacket and Sora’s KH2 jacket, being a black and white jacket. his outfit carries both sora and Roxas's clothes in his design; this is a clever reference to his connection between the two he has in the story. Another thing that caught my eyes is that his jacket is black and white with white on the right side and black on the left side. The two colors could signify light and darkness since the white signifies Ven’s being of light and the black being Vanitas, his part that was split by Xehanort his negative emotions. The light half of his jacket references how he is someone who is meant to be the other half of the x blade and connection to Vanitas who is created as the dark half.

Or the black in his jacket references his role in kh chi and how he was possessed by darkness to slay Strelitzia. But all this is my interpretation of it

Despite harboring the same character design as Roxas, Ven has elements that make him stand out as his character. This is the last KH meta I am going to do since Kingdom Hearts as a series has always been convoluted even though I got confused when I was writing KH metas. So I could be wrong when I was discussing if you think so feel free to add and correct. I am happy to have someone help.

#kingdom hearts #Ventus #Character Design #character design talks #kingdom hearts meta #my meta

[spacialdimension]

I love creating little lore tidbits for my own characters

Like, in no way would the detail be useful, or ever be mentioned in any context other than fun facts. But its still a delight to me coming up with random little interactions or world details.

For example: this character doesn't like the crust on their sandwich, and that character hates birds for some reason. minor details like that

#character design talks #i just think it's neat

[arabian-batboy]

Don’t play with me now, this better be for real-

#they FINALLY made the right choice #logic wins #although I really hope this isn't him here #and its just a random guy from the Earth Kingdom #because I'm not feeling this design #he looks like a background character in that Metal clan #Zaofu? #or one of Kuvira's goons #but I'm willing to overlook it as long as they don't make him a basic stereotypical Earth-bending Muscle-head #if you watched the show you would know what I'm talking about #Avatar #LOK #ATLA

[lotus-pear]

these losers again

#sorry for literally drawing never ever. apology skk for u guys #ALSO WAIT WAIT nobody talks abt this but #we need to enforce the fact that dazai has these large soft gorgeous brown doe eyes and chuuya has the vulpine sharp sullen dark cat eyes #skk both have brown eyes guys. not enough ppl know this💔 #anyway enough abt that before i go on an entire tangent abt how bones fucking RUINED everyones character designs #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #skk #soukoku #lotus draws

[puppyeared]

my attempt at making a fursona

#i never see any mole furries so i thought id try my hand at it ^_^ #i was hungry making this and was thinking of dirt cup pudding so its partly inspired by that and mario grass blocks #i dont draw furries very often so this was a fun learning experience lol. also!! star nose moles are kinda cute!!!! #when i was coming up with a name my mind kept going back to that tiktok of dogs and the tts voice saying stuff like i like mulch #mulch is my favorite food! yippee mulch!! so if youre wondering where i got the name theres the lore for it #i also wanna make a sea otter fursona.. and perhaps a snowshoe hare or other winter animal. oh or a barn owl!! #im trying to free my mind when it comes to making multiple sonas bc im still trying to wrap my head around it #ive always kinda seen myself as my persona but i want to try and be silly with it. actually while i was making this i was a little doubtful #to call it my fursona bc it doesnt look like me but a little voice inside my head was like well. youre not a 5 foot tall talking mole eithe #so you might as well. and i was thinking abt ppl with their dragon wolves with wings and i was like wow.. youre right... i can do what i #want forever. and brother that shit was enlightening it was like my third eye opened when i realized that #my art #myart #my oc #oc #fursona #mulch #furry art #sfw furry #character design #oc ref sheet #reference sheet

[c-rowlesblogs]

I could not be more bored of women characters who are dangerous in a competent, sexy, luminous makeup and blow-dried hairstyle kind of way. I am so tired of all these dry-clean-only girlbosses strutting their way into stories. “Oh she’s so beautiful AND so good at martial arts and so clever and seductive” No! Get that outta here!! Give me more women who are dangerous in a real grungy way, like rusted metal with a sharp edge. Girls who make you glad you’ve had your tetanus shot. Girls who cut their own hair and get bad tattoos. Girls who are as charming as a wet feral cat. Girls who might be clever enough to Play The Game but would rather flip over the chess board and punch you in the throat. I demand more horrible unpleasant women!! Thank you.

#writing #character design #catie talks

[razzafrazzle]

may i offer you a wizard in this trying time?

[image description: a reference image for an original character named roy g. biv the great and colorful. roy is a short, dark-skinned wizard with long, wavy, rainbow-colored hair and a beard that covers her entire body. she is also wearing a wizard hat with a fluffy cloud brim and a blue sky pattern. next to her main reference drawing is a small drawing of her with her hair tied into a braid, allowing her body to be seen. she is wearing a blue sweater with a long white pleated skirt. end id]

#wizard for you? wizard? #this design erupted from deep inside my subconscious i think. i was a sleeper agent just waiting to make this gal #i hope you enjoy her bc i very much do #doc talks #my art #my characters #wizard

[umblrspectrum]

being grounded from devices means nothing when you have a robot boyfriend

#i think im getting better with different angles #its obviously not perfect but this is like 1 of 3 times i've ever drawn a character at this angle #n was unreasonably hard to get right here but uhmm i figured it out hopefully #she IS winning. gamer pro #real talk. n would be cracked at fps games. he's been living like one for at least a couple years #he also sits in the tism way. it just feels right i think #dont ask how uzi's playing on that controller she doesnt know either #art #murder drones #murder drones uzi #murder drones n #serial designation n

[arealtrashact]

Look at my therapy group, dawg. ( I'm never improving my social functioning )

#Housebroken #my art #character design #these are from last year (when I was sick / couchbound and at the mercy of whatever happened to be on TV) #I will say I found this show to be much more tolerable than I anticipated #then again I do have a soft spot for anything containing talking critters. #My favorite character was The Grey One. #he reminded me of my old cat </3

[prokopetz]

D&D warlock who’s literally just Fortunato from “The Cask of Amontillado”, having survived his immurement by making a deal with something in the dark, and the costume he was wearing the night he “died” has become the sign of his pact, so basically you’re playing as a depressed, alcoholic jester who sometimes has to run errands for He Who Waits Behind the Walls.

#concepts #gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #dungeons & dragons #d&d #edgar allan poe #the cask of amontillado #character design #death mention #alcohol mention #he has montresor's skull on a chain at his waist #sometimes he holds it up and talks to it #it's genuinely unclear whether he's conversing with a dead spirit or whether he's just doing a bit

[sunlitmcgee]

Peak Breekon and Hope designs are where they look like the main character from the game OOF if you made him into a delivery man. Just stick this guy in a gray, nondescript delivery uniform, then boom. It them.

#the magnus archives #TMA spoiler tag #character design talks #breekon and hope

[skyflyinginaction]

Character Design Talks: Roxas

Another character from the series whose design I wanted to talk about, one that is close to my heart, is Roxas, my top fave character in the KH franchise. Roxas is the character that introduced me to the KH series. He's the character I thought the most about.

I loved his personality and design and I wanted to talk about it though Nomura already explained Roxas's design concept. This post is just my attempt at explaining his design.

Name:

His name is straightforward but is deep and enriched in meaning that has something to do with her nature and his supposed role.

Roxas's name is the anagram of Sora and x used like this:

Sora + X = Roxas

This is used to signify that Roxas is the nobody of sora with Roxas name being an anagram of Sora’s name.

The x is what organization 13 uses in their names with the anagram of x and the member's real name when they were once human.

The x in Roxas's name is a lot deeper than what you think. X is part of the roman alphabet pronounced “Chi” or “kye."

The x is called the resultant Sigil pronunciation similar to the roman alphabet or kye or key. This is given to the organization members. The x sigil is used by Xemnas to locate members of the Organization so he can use them for his goals. The x is a symbol designed by Xehanort to represent the rejection of a nobody to form his original persona so he can control them.

X is symbolic of death. This notes Xemnas’ objective with the members. He plans to use the artificial kingdom hearts to make the members the intended vessel of Xehanort's heart once it has been completed. Xemnas plans to use all the original organization members' vessels once kingdom hearts are met. Xemnas added x in their names, which x is the mark of an intended vessel.

He needs the person's original self to die first so he can use them as a vessel. He needs the person's original self to die first so he can use them as a vessel. The x symbol for death symbolizes the death of the self. organization 13 members are marked to signify the death of their original self.

Design:

To keep with Kingdom Heart's themes of connection, Roxas's design encompasses these concepts

Roxas's design concept is based on the concept of between since nobodies exist between light and dark not belonging to neither. It alludes to nobody. Roxas has many elements in his design that correlate directly to nobody which is seen best in his outfit.

The zippers seen throughout Roxas clothes look like teeth from the mouth of dusk, and dusks have notable zipped mouths in their designs. 

The X cross zipper on Roxas clothes is the same emblem nobodies have; the cross is a motif for nobodies, Roxas X shaped zipper pull is modeled after a nobody symbol.

Nomura said the X is symbolic of the crossing of dark and light. Nobody are beings that neither belongs to light nor darkness this part in his design hints at his true nature as a nobody in a more subtle way

Another interesting detail is in his black and white rings on his fingers and the black and white checkerboard pattern of his wrist band on his left wrist, Nomura stated that the checkers in Roxas's clothing represent light and darkness this goes well with nobodies since nobodies are being that belong to neither.

Roxas's first design is based on Sora.

Roxas original design was supposed to look like sora since he's his nobody and the person nobody looked similar to their original person. His hair isn’t as spiky as Sora’s; it's clear that Roxas's hair is meant to be similar to him with his jacket resembling Sora’s white kh 1 jacket in the concept art. Roxas was designed to resemble Sora, but with as much agency Roxas has in his character arc, his looking like Sora would have not done him any good.

Roxas has created contrast Sora,

Roxas is designed to bear similarities since he is his nobody but retains his individuality.

This is seen in their clothing. While Roxas is designed to be an urban child to contrast Sora’s country child

Roxas has slightly narrow eyes; his hair is the same length as Sora’s.  But his blonde hair contracts Sora’s brown hair Roxas harbors the same face as Sora right down to the same pixels.

Roxas's main color is white, the basis used in his clothes in contrast to Sora’s black clothes.

Roxas' image color is white, white is the color of nobody, it's the color of Dusks, the first nobody we see in the game.

White is the absence of color, white is the color of nothingness being a color of blank, nothing. This goes well with the enemies nobodies in the games that are a blank slate made to be transparent since white is a color with nothing in it.

Roxas’ white jacket and pants being white on black goes with how nobodies are seen with white on black.

This took a while to summaries since there are a lot of intricate details of Roxas design. If I forgot to add anything or I’m wrong feel free to correct me.

#kingdom hearts #roxas #Character Design #kingdom hearts meta #character design talks #my meta

[wyvernity]

been thinking about the sinnohtrio lately......plus misc other stuff

also, casual ko-fi drop!! get something in this sketchy style starting at $10 woop woop

#finally decided to do a commission test run u_u #pokemon #trainer lyra #trainer kris #trainer dawn #trainer lucas #rival barry #rival silver #ayalumi #hisuian zorua #luxio #timeskip tag #rkgk #anyway it's sinnoh time !!! #still figuring out their designs and lore but this works for now #god's specialest little guys & their very normal bestfriend who they would kill/die for. up to interpretation who is killing/dying #dawn is the platinum protag who meets giratina and becomes champion #distortion world affected her way more than compared to cynthia and cyrus since she's still a developing kid. but hey cool ghost hair! #4-5 yrs later lucas gets blasted to hisui..lost his memory for the three years he's there and when arceus sends him back he's just like Man #the entire time barry is CHILLING PLAYING HAVING FUN #and forever worried abt his friends ): dawn & lucas are soo nonchalant about what happened to them it's a bit concerning to everyone else #design comments umm the only thing that matters is that they still have their og scarves 👍 #and i guesss these are spring/summer outfits. winter dawn gets leggings and big coat ok. she already has too much yin energy #btw i use the cleanse tag as the direct opposition to the spell tag even tho that's probably not a real thing LOL) #oh yea barry wears the tower master ribbon 24/7. tower tycoon in training and won't shut up about it (i love him) #character dynamics i will talk abt that in another post if i feel like it... these days i just want to go replay pla aughh

[turtleblogatlast]

I love Raph and haven’t said that enough so to be more specific I love that Raph is a soft boy who loves bear plushies, a gross boy who eats an assortment of things that are definitely better left alone, a smart boy who is more than capable of taking down villains through planning and fortitude alike, a strong boy who is dedicated to training his muscles and fighting prowess, a teenage boy who loves his brothers but is more than happy to tease and roughhouse with them, an angry boy who sometimes lets his anger take a hold of him to cover the fear, a gentle boy who is generous with hugs and affirmations to those he loves, a capable boy who takes on more than should ever be expected of a teenager, a good boy who just wants to be a hero and slowly comes to realize the cost of that duty, a good boy who has no reservations about putting himself in the way of harm coming to his family, a good boy who’s a great brother and son and person and deserves only the best the world has to offer.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #rise raph #he’s so wonderful frfr #my poor boy is traumatized but still so proud of what they accomplished because they’re HEROES #what started as something fun - Saturday morning cartoon-like heroes vs villains esque - soon becomes his calling #and he loses himself a little along the way #because the world is TERRIFYING now #if they don’t do something about the bad things in the world then worse things will come #and Raph CARES too much to let it happen #even at the expense of his own happiness and youth #and he luckily reigns back that fear - knowing his family is there to keep an eye out with him #and he finally lets himself be a kid again #he’s very well rounded and his flaws are so good because (like the others) they are ALSO his strengths #I like how it’s softly implied that bears are his fav animal too bc that’s cute af #headcanon that he likes them so much because a stuffed bear was the first toy splinter managed to get Raph #but yeah one of my favorite things about tmnt is that the characters are well rounded and rottmnt exemplifies that immensely #with raph being no exception!! #amazing big brother and character #there’s a REASON in my tmnt main character tierlist he’s S tier!!!! #hot take but in terms of who should be leader I think it should be less who’s the better leader- #-and more who’s the better leader FOR THIS SPECIFIC MISSION #bc all four can be great leaders fight me on that #APRIL can as well 100% #doesn’t need a designated leader for them to succeed #they just need ~communication~ #one of my favorite things tying Raph and Leo together is that they both *hide* #I’ve talked about Leo’s many masks a lot but Raph has one too #and it’s the mask of a hero - the mask of the protector

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.

#Fear and Hunger #D'arce Cataliss #Cahara #Ragnvaldr #Enki Ankarian #Unlike Dungeon Meshi - I cannot in good faith recommend this game to a broad audience. #My background with F&H goes as follows: I am hanging out with a friend. He says “hey try this game I've been playing.” I say “Okay!” #I have never heard of this game. I pick the mercenary. I go through 5 min of character history and background. I am mauled to death by dogs #It took me 4 resets to even get in the dungeon. But I finally get there. I am caught by a guard. He cuts off all but one of my limbs #I am forced to crawl around in a blood and corpse pit until the game tells me 'give up idiot'. #I reset. I am mauled by dogs again. I realize this is not for me but I am intrigued enough to go home and watch some playthroughs #And WOW what an interesting game it is! I really do appreciate games that blend their design philosophy with the theme it wants to set #This is a game about fear and hunger. And persevering. And penis (my god is there a lot of penis) #I recommend this to people who like extremely challenging games and can handle the many *content warnings* within this series #If the idea of Bloodborne/eldenring and undertale having a little RPG maker baby sounds appealing to you - give it a shot #It's made by ONE GUY and it's a great horror game. I am just really bad at it. #My friends just enjoy putting me in situations where I scream and yell. We don't talk about the corn mazes. Or the other horror game nights #Apparently I'm funny when I'm Scared! #As people who follow me on twitter might know; I am deep in the pits of this series right now. I will be back with more art.