Your favourite hypervigilante sleep deprived historian with an interest in archaeology and everything pagan. Call me Kleio, if you know my actual name, no you don't.
It’s funny how people point to Hades and Persephone as the most healthy couple in Greek myths, when Dionysus & Ariadne and Hypnos & Pasithea are right there
studying the hades game artstyle like my life depends on it + timelapse
and some incoherent thoughts on what I've learnt (warning: long and most definitely contains mistakes)
It never occurred to wich extent the skintones are desaturated. You keep hearing that colours don't really matter that much, cuz it's all about values. And turnes out -- indeed, they don't (to some extent)
I still messed up some values in my study tho
I am a person who usually avoids desaturated colours while rendering skin. Because why would I? My characters will look like corpses. And, well, the game involves chtonic gods, dead people (shades) and olympians, so they're supposed to look unnatural. Still, in a certain light the skin colour is desaturated, so this study actually helped me in an unexpected way.
With that being said, the artist still used more saturated colours in some areas of skin. They are either blended with the midtone colour (they have the same value), or placed on a border between shadow and a midtone. And the light, of course.
You can also notice some random bright highlights on the characters. Why are these highlights there in the first place? My guess is -- to tell your brain, that there are more details, than there actually is, but also to bring more life to pitch black areas or they will look like black holes.
Look how these highlights change the perception of a character (Charon, my mate):
a bit boring vs eye-catching
I'm also a big big fan of character poses, especially of the olympians. I haven't played the second game yet (I'm already in love with Melinoё), but I've seen some photos of the characters, and something felt off. Poses are not that interesting, a bit basic in fact, but there is also something about the way characters are coloured (rendered(?)) I can't put my finger on. They still look amazing, don't get me wrong. It's just I prefer first game's design more.
also look how my art changed over two years. I have definetely become more confident with my brushwork lol, and, well, as an artist in general
Anyway, the poses!! I LOVE how they instantly tell you more about the characters and their personality. Athena's pose is stately and noble, Aphrodite is very flirty. Artemis looks like she is in the middle of a hunt, and her pose reminds me of an arrow in a way. Poseidon and Dio are more laid back, but Poseidon is also flexing with his guns and weapon.
an awful photo of my messy sketches + hands
don't lie to me. you did naht read all that. but thanks anyway for tapping that keep reading button and scrolling till the end :3
"i'm doing this for my wife and kids" justifications are so so so fucking funny like even ignoring the patriarchal arrogance the naked desperation to have an excuse to commit acts of heinous violence and the implications of the family unit as property to be defended and butchered like livestock it's like. if you want a hole to die in so badly grab a shovel and go outside. why are you digging the fucking trenches in our living room man.
your mom jokes don't work when you know someone too well. I would never be in bed with such a wicked woman. That's not even what I had your mom saying last night. I wouldn't speak to her.
using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold
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