just read the last dimension update and i have a lot of thoughts and not all of peeps to talk to so i’ll say it all here
first off the art? good as always
i liked the change in clothing that the rest of the kids got
i’ll probably go back and reread it again to fully understand the info i learned but
it was really cool to see future alex and painful to see that fai doesn’t remember what susie looks like because of the time difference
it reminds me of when phil learned the same when he reunited with her and started envisioning the other kids growing up without him
ALSO seeing alex getting heated after finding out that they’ve been gone for so long, asking them about his friends and family, calling the adults out of their inaction of getting them out sooner
it really shows that despite their cool chondrias and having to learn how to defend themselves in another world with deadly creatures inside, they’re still KIDS
kids who have been taken to labs all around the world to learn how to master and control their abilities so they can become a part of the council like susie
wow they need therapy fr
sidenote i can’t wait to see what fai’s vision and learning more about the future
Does Muien's body affect his mental age? Because it's a bit noticeable now that we've seen him in the past that he's currently a bit more childish than he was before, which could be for the fact that the situation has changed and maybe he's more laidback now to joke (also considering he's friends with Hawk and Dotsu yk), but sometimes he acts like a child the age of his current body.
Also, if the witch (IS THAT MY WIFE SKRAUNT??) never lifted his "curse to never die", how did his last body die? Actually, how even does the curse works? Maybe its not that he never dies, but that his soul never leaves the living land, cursed to wander inbetween the living people forever without a minute to rest until he finds a new vessel to possess? Bcuz the curse was never lifted, but the body died?
Also the timeline been puzzling me. Kori had short purple hair when he implanted Muien's soul in the blonde child's body, which makes you think he was young. But he had white long hair when he worked with Muien in his original body which makes you think he was older, but Muien's original body should come before the blonde child's body, and you even SEE his original body dead in the same room they found the blonde child.
Just how much has Kori been messing up with the timelines until now?
I drew Fai doing cool Oracle stuff and... it actually looks pretty good! I like it!
Further ramblings under the cut.
WELL. OKAY THEN. This turned out FAR better than I expected! The proportions are decent, the hair looks like hair, the legs look like legs rather than pool noodles, the HANDS LOOK LIKE HANDS WHICH SHOCKS ME, even the face isn't too bad! Even the cloth wrinkles look pretty good. And the lighting! Oh, that lighting! Turns out I can just draw some semitransparent blobs, apply a blur filter mask, and the result looks really nice!
Some Gripes and Lessons for Next Time:
I cannot draw a smooth curve to save my life, and the curve tools in Krita are enigmas I have yet to solve. This wasn't an issue with the shield on the right (I just used the ellipse tool), but the left one... well, if you can't tell, I tried to hide my inadequacy with a motion blur filter mask. I might have applied it either way to try to sell the spinny movement (like I did with the raptor, which worked great), but it does very little to fix the curves. Guess I'm just going to have to practice more.
Speaking of the shields, it's a darn shame they're so big, because they cover up a lot of the clothing and lighting work that I'm really proud of:
In fact, I almost like the shieldless version better because of this.
Those hands, though. I'm pretty happy with my ability to cheat and get away with not drawing fingers like the coward I am. Left hand looks great, right hand might need some work.
Although I'm pretty happy with the face and expression thereof, one issue I have is with the eyes. The downside of using Henry Stickmin Eyes (because I'm a coward) is that there's no pupil/iris/white distinction, and the result is that they don't really glow clearly enough here. If you zoom in, you can see how I tried to cheat a little, but it isn't really enough when zoomed out. Too much saturated pink over the face, not enough bright color in the eyes, I think. My options are either "refine my cheating technique" or "give up and study how actual eyes work". Decisions, decisions...
Overall though, I'm very proud of this one! It's exciting to see that I'm gradually getting better at this!
Phillip's shapeshifting has some interesting possibilities.
Oh gravy, the longer I stare at this the more it starts to gross me out. It's so... gooey. Eugghh.
This was actually a lot easier than I expected it to be. It only took an hour and a half! Turns out all you need to animated stretchy goop is to have gradually expanding holes and thinning strands and boom, goop.
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