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QZ Creations Ani Mosity This is my artblog animosity.design for my costume portfolio I do not tag stuff on this blog, except for #nsfw, which I put in the body of the post.

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I did the cover for Issue 88 of Shousetsu Bang*Bang! Started out in Procreate, but it was still early in my iPad ownership so I couldn’t figure out how to render the colors in a way I liked. I took it back to my desktop and my trusty Wacom and Krita setup to finish it up. I’m impressed with my own ability to draw a SFW post-orgy scene.

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I actually ended up getting extra credit in the first semester of Drawing and Rendering, because I got excited picking out sources to use and would just do another one of these black and white pencil portraits whenever I was bored or stressed (which was, uh, often). Unfortunately I appear to have kind of burnt myself out on them. At least I know I can do it, and presumably will return to it at some point in the future!

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more projects from drawing and rendering class! knowing that my weak points are definitely non-human subjects, including furniture and architecture, I went out of my way to find nature, environments, and buildings to reference. I definitely feel more confident in my ability to draw those things now than I did before I took the class.

these are also all done in different media! top is black and white pencil, flower is colored pencils, and right is chalk pastels. if I had a lot more time and money I would definitely spend it on art supplies, because I had kind of forgotten how much fun it is to use different media! being flexible with limited resources is nice, but playing around with chalks and markers and paints is also really nice.

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sketches of two different ways to style the same heart-shaped boob window top my wife showed me. fun to think of what other garments these two ladies would both wear but style completely differently. also fun to think of how much they would hate each other.

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I potentially spent too much time rendering this instead of working on homework, but in my defense: I’m tired and rendering my OCs taking sexy selfies is restful.

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trying to get myself enthused about this romance novel again by drawing the protagonists cuddling. pose referenced from this adorkastock image

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using procreate to get sketchy, pencil looks

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using the same pose/reference image to draw three elves of varying body types.

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At some point this summer, I got really angry about how sexist and racist the Gerudo costumes in Breath of the Wild (...and every other Zelda game with the Gerudo appearing) are, and somehow this ended with me doubling down on crop top Ganondorf. Like, if Nintendo wants to act like crop tops are practical desert wear (they’re not) then Ganondorf should wear them too, not just the Gerudo women. Cowards.

Realistically though, the Gerudo need a complete redesign, preferably from a desert dweller, definitely from someone who is not white or Japanese, and is actually capable of critical thought about whether or not it’s appropriate to just stack racist tropes on top of each other for twenty years and call that world-building.

(pose references: sword, lounging)

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did a boob meme going around twitter with (slightly older and fatter) sadie. yes i did start out just doing meme outfits. sadie is the kind of person who would buy meme clothes, i don’t know what to tell you.

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more fiddling with Procreate, this time via fanart of MXTX’s Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System.

drawn from an adorka-stock pose and a reference photo of olympic gold weightlifter shane hamman. because I think sometimes sexy demon lords should be fat as well as buff. the topless lineart version is because…his clothes made it really hard to tell he was fat. i worked hard on those rolls

also i was going to do a less slutty design where his robes actually cover his chest, but i could find zero references of fat men in hanfu to figure out how it would actually lay on his chest so, fuck you fatphobes, slutty mobei-jun it is.

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I did all this research for the Masquerade costumes and then realized I had gotten way overambitious with my time. The Phantom’s Masquerade costume is the only plot-important one (and his only alternate costume from that suit and cloak he wears the rest of the show) so I did his Red Death costume. Big velvet cloak and gold mask, plus needlessly ornate period dress even though the Masque of the Red Death only came out in the 1830s. The difference between an 1830s suit and an 1880s suit was not enough to be dramatic, imo, and let us be real: the Phantom is a dramatic man.

Christine’s street clothes and coat for going to the graveyard, plus Raoul with his hat. He should probably also have an overcoat and gloves but. I didn’t bother lmao. This is also a good example of my Extremely Basic color story for the love triangle: Christine is literally in the middle color between the Phantom’s dramatic reds, and Raoul’s soothing and classy blues. It also doubles as a reference to her being so heavily impacted by the death of her father, as lavender was one of the first colors mourners were allowed to begin wearing again in half-mourning, apart from black.

The ballet corps gets rehearsal outfits mostly to show how they are not exactly like Meg’s, but Meg still fits into the ensemble even as a covering Muslim dancer. Would the real life Paris Opera have had a hijabi ballerina in the 1880s? Probably not. Could they have if they weren’t racist cowards? I DON’T SEE WHY NOT.

pt 4, which is the end bc although I did lots of research for Don Juan Triumphant (the Phantom’s opera he forces them to perform at the end of the show) I ran out of time and energy, and it was the least interesting to me for costumes. I was hoping to push it as Gothic as I possibly could have, which would be fun, but alas, I am only human and had to work on this project until 1 am the last day of classes as it was.

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Do you know how many of Christine’s changes are quick changes or on-stage transformations? MOST OF THEM, ACTUALLY. I never realized that!

Anyway, here’s the dressing gown the Phantom kidnaps Christine in after the show, because the idea of her being in the Hannibal costume for four songs really bothered me lmao. Post-show dressing gown to receive visitors in her dressing room before getting fully dressed to leave (which she doesn’t get to do), plus the Phantom’s first Big Old Cloak of the show. I figure over the course of kidnapping Christine, revealing his lair, and then watching her sleep like a creep, he would take off his cloak, and then his jacket, and be in his shirtsleeves while he’s playing a little bit of Don Juan Triumphant. He’s literally removing layers and becoming more vulnerable to Christine…until she removes his mask and he loses his shit.

The other bit is the fake opera Il Muto, which the Phantom interrupts with first cursing (???) Carlotta to sound like a toad, and then drops the chandelier at the end. Christine is in a silent role that needs a transforming costume, which Carlotta (as the Countess) can rip off to reveal her “maid” is in fact a page boy, with whom she is having an affair. I really enjoyed going over the top for Carlotta’s outfit, and I wish I’d had time to design and render Piangi’s counterpart as the Count, but…elaborate 18th century clothing sure takes some fucking time.

Christine’s page boy costume could probably be more elaborate, but she also has to pass as a maid with the skirt and apron over top, so I erred on the side of simplicity.

Part 3 of 4 because yes! There is still more!

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They open the show rehearsing the fictional opera Hannibal. I went down into a Punic wars research spiral and got to be very angry about the way Rome purposely destroyed records and art of Carthage. The costumes ended up being based on some modern Tunisian fashion, and some 19th century illustrations that may be completely fucking fabricated for all I know. I swatched a bunch of batiks and “african fabrics” from stores actually (as far as I could tell) selling fabric designed/made in Africa, so I at least made as strong an attempt as a 19th century costume designer in France would have, if not stronger.

if I was going to put any more time in on this project, this is probably where it would go; changing the renderings on the chorus to look a little more like some of the fabrics I found, and adjusting the colors to match/coordinate better.

pt 2 of 4

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For my final costume design project, I decided to do Phantom. I did decide that as many people as possible were going to be disabled (so it’s not just the Phantom) and also the Girys are dark-skinned and Muslim, since the musical cuts out Daroga (”the Persian”) and gives most of his plot role to Mme. Giry. This also works really well because France was doing a lot of colonialist/imperialist nonsense in North Africa in the 19th century, so it would make sense for it to not actually be a completely white opera company.

pt 1 of 4, bc there are so many shows within this show.

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Also a project for costume design class, also done entirely in Procreate. You can see the amount of rendering and detail increase as I kind of figure out what to do. We had to pick three characters and do three versions of them--approximately period-accurate “Shakespearean”, a contemporary version, and a “wild card” version that was incredibly difficult to think of. I eventually settled on “retrofuturism” and looked at a lot of The Jetsons. I think that idea has legs, but needed more development time. The Shakespearean version and the modern version I’m really happy with, though. And the croquis I copied Ophelia’s pose from is just perfect for the character, that was such a find.

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our first project in Costume Design was to design a music video. like, concept to costume design. I picked an instrumental track titled La Llorona, which had a section in the middle that sounded like a Western. Naturally, I decided to work on this project I saved as “Ghost Showdown”, also known as “this town ain’t big enough for two ghosts”. to be honest, the saloon bartender is only there to fulfill assignment requirements (five renderings); my attention was mostly focused on the ghost ladies and their gunslinger versions.