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Was admittedly disappointed with Marinette's akuma design (I get they were going for a minimalist design/look, but...), so I made a redesign! This is less a "I can fix her" and more a self-indulgent "what I would have liked" thing: Gave her a dress, changed the hair, leaned more into the heart-motif, added extra colors, etc (Kept the barbwire purse straps though - those were cool). Also drew some potential alt designs because I had a lot of ideas.

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Me, gripping my sink white knuckled, eyes bloodshot: "My redesigns are for fun and personal enjoyment. My redesigns are for fun and personal enjoyment. My redesigns are for fun and personal enjoyment. My redesigns are for fun and personal enjoyment. MY REDESIGNS ARE FOR FUN AND PERSONAL ENJOYMENT-"

...So anyway, I decided to redesign Ray and his crew for fun and personal enjoyment and nothing else.

Here's a quick breakdown -

Ray: Got rid of the uniform and Chloe Ripoff sunglasses. Went for Preppy Academia with a sweater, slacks, a nice watch, and derbies (also gave him a jacket cape cause screw it, jacket capes are cool!). Also gave him a butterfly wing lapel pin for Reasons™. Didn't feel like coloring it but if I had I would have likely tried lighter tones like alabastor and given him some green or orange to help break up the palette.

Loïc: *Casts 'Swaps Your Gender'*. So yeah, made him a girl. Gave her a nice little top-knot-esque ponytail, swapped the pants for cargo shorts, and made the shirt longer while making the jacket a bit poofier (the girls, they yearn for the giant poofy jackets). didn't dislike his outfit palette so it would stay, but i think I'd make her hair darker.

Nelson: Got rid of the scarf and v-neck and went for something more sporty/jock-like with a simple hoodie+jersey combo and straight-leg jeans (used the school from the New York special since according to the trivia cards Zoe and Jessica are friends and therefore is likely where she went.). Also gave him a mullet. Would have likely used a lot of red and white for his pallet (and maybe some yellow to help pull it back)

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Me, bleeding from the mouth as I remind myself that I do redesigns for fun and self satisfaction in challenging myself, not spite: I totally find Rose's new season 6 design fine and acceptable, but if I allowed to make a few tiny suggestions...

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Introducing An's half sister MiaoJing (Real name YueMing) with a bunch of lore for both girls

So as mentioned, An's family are exorcists. They're huge followers/admirers of (their interpretation of) GuanYin and her philosophy that any and all heirs are given the name "Miao" upon being entitled. They're also huge about blood purity and extremely insular as the integration of demons into the modern public have caused their need by the populace to wane rather badly (Though the recent boom of people sudden;y gaining supernatural powers after the sky started and stopped cracking have helped them gain an uptick in clients). Originally, this was supposed to happen with An since she's of "pure blood" despite being younger and also a Medium, but thanks to her mom basically pulling a huge coup and upsetting the hierarchy some years ago, Yue got placed as heir instead and took the name "MiaoJiing" - which upset a lot of their sect since she's not only of "outsider blood", but considered less talented compared to An and the rest as her sorcery's not all that up to snuff. As such, Yue's developed a bit of resentment towards her younger half sister (not at all helped by their mom high-key projecting on the both of them), though she mostly manifests it by just ignoring her or just being icy in general. She uses tools (specifically her whip) to make up for her issues with sorcery.

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Redraw/remake of an old piece

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More AnJing doodles

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AnJing expression doodles. I came to a recent realization that I'm not really good at cartoonish/exaggerated expressions, so I did some practice by using the show's earlier seasons for reference

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Wanted to try out that "Miku from my culture" trend with an Nigerian!Miku. I tried limiting the palette to Miku's main three colors (teal, grey, red) and tried to mimic the pattern from a dress I used as reference.

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Caved to (my own selfmade) peer-pressure after binging all 5 seasons and made my own OC. AnJing is a medium who deals with ghosts and gets chosen by the heavens to be the host/medium for Guanyin (Though it's more that she occasionally just sends messages/warnings through her) after the mess that happened during Season 5 thanks to Nine so they can "better monitor" the human realm (and manage MK and SWK). She's not really, um, enthused about it (neither is Guanyin)

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Watched an Indigo Park letsplay and I am 100% for this concept! I know technically we know the Protag's male and stuff but I wanted to try and explore a female design.

(Also am practicing with watermarks since I realize though I work mostly traditionally, it might help with protecting my stuff from AI scapers)

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*Drawing to charge Miku+Jigglypuff combo chances* Please let the Fairy-type Miku be a frilly idol trainer Project Voltage don't make me a liar to my followers

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Wanted to draw my own version of Shadybug before the special launched

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Not posting to be a bother, but I’m actually genuinely curious 

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[ID: a screenshot of a Tumblr post that reads:

What’s my art trademark?

As in, what makes you go “hey, this is [blank]’s art!”, or what’s the most remarkable thing about my art style in general?

In the lower right corner is clip art of a person with an exaggerated winky face holding up a peace sign.

end ID.]

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Decided to do a redraw/redesign of my old Spidersona/Spiderverse OC Priya/Spiderplant to upload her for artfight. She got bitten by a spider that the lab she interned in was experimenting on to crossbred plant and pollinator traits into other insects and now she's got super spider powers AND a great green thumb.

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And here we have my second ON:NF MC - Rufus! (I used him to experiment with some techniques i picked up online, hence why his lineart/coloring might look a bit different from Camile’s drawing)

And of course - fullbody underneath the cut

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Replayed my OL:NF demo so I could make a profile for one of my MCs (and force myself to try and practice on my digital art skills again). Transparent of fullbody under the cut

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Last of my Miraculous User!Socqueline series. Finally got the entire Zodiac! Here’s her with the Goat (“Lambrant”), Pig (“Piggleywinks”), Monkey (“Queen Kong”), and Rooster (“Chickadee”)!