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One of the GEIST employees I had the honor of designing for the upcoming act 3 of Reflection ttrpg.
thanks to the amazing reception from the folks who tuned into the announcement stream TvT! You get his spectrum of emotions in a single post. Design notes under the cut
First entry
Designing this man was a labor of love. I was tasked with designing a reserved individual who just wants to lay low and get by while giving him his own sense of character. So none of that spiky hair protagonist stuff.
On the other hand, making his hair straight would just run the risk of him being a Satyr look-alike. So that idea had to be defenestrated, too.
I ended up settling for an old classic of mine that's never failed me: cork-screw hair.
I've been getting into drawing hats recently, it makes the Visionary blend in with his peers. Throw that in with a half shaved-head on a pathetic looking old man and you'd get a stamped and approved bisectro design 👍
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With the sketch down, it was color placement time.
I had to take into consideration that his hair color provided a balancing contrast to the black of his GEIST outfit that would be later translatable to a casual outfit.
Usually, a good color for that would be RED! The problem: He'd look much like Shadow the Hedgehog. So I just reserved the red for his eye color.
Blue would have been good. But my gut wasn't really feeling it. And I didn't want people to assume he had ties to Ridill. Frosted tips reminded me of that one B99 gag from years ago, so yellow's a No.
"Green? Won't he look like Breach?" I asked myself. I was getting desperate. I am running out of colors on the color wheel.
I'm a sucker for characters that show the roots of someone's hair being evident in their design. Born with green hair? You're a protagonist.
Dyed your hair green and left your black colored roots to grow out? It's now a lifestyle choice.
That's all for now.
I'll be updating this post as more things about him get revealed.
I feel awful about doing so much of my cultural reconnection shit now in my life especially with how I was raised during the age of 9-15. Weird ass feeling realizing I really wasn’t that separated from these things even after the weird anglo-assassination my mother tried to get us to go through. And it makes me feel like I didn’t put in the effort to try when I did get out of that
I forgot to say but I changed my user here to Dr-Ocular (dream was Dr.Ocular but that’s not happening obviously) but I wanted to go do this with my main but got scared and decided not to. So heartemoji
I’m so happy I’m talking to people again even if it’s for short periods of time. Had a delightful conversation with a pal about something he was making (absolutely amazing btw I’m obsessed with it) and it made me so happy. I love him and I love my friends and I love the world
