#kg!design

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Deside to make my (so far) designs for Cindy in each game!

Be prepare for me ramble over to explain some of the details.

Disclaimer: of course, that the way I see Cindy and that very logical for different people have different opinions and hcs. Just sharing my toughests about her.

Also, Cindy-focused post, children abuse and neglect will be discussed at some level.

Main thing is that i imagine Cindy have an extremely adorable appearance. That kind of child that adults will melt from her cuteness when they first see her. And then they will have some confrontation with her or will see her interacs with other kids(especially other girls she's targeting) and will be in kind of shock. "Looking like an angel acts like the devil" type. That why I always give her huge, bright blue eyes, with noticeable eyelashes and upturned nose. Beauty of course is a subjective, and it will be better if we as a society wouldn't put so much importance over it, especially on very young children, but I see Cindy as a child that very compatible with the western beauty standard. I also imagine her smaller compare to the other kids - a little shorter and thinner. I believe Cindy is extremely neglected. She might externally cared: with her pink clothes and pigtails. But i believe she don't get proper meals, health care, etc, and that influencing her physical development. Back to less sad headcanons, I love to give her tooth gap. First of because they are all 5 years old – they probably have tooth gap, missing teeth and stuff like that, similar to why I draw her with hai that slips away from her hairpins. Secondly i imagine Cindy having tooth gap also as adult, so I like to give her that tiny notaicble feature.

For the more artistic freedom, I (try to remember) to give her heart-shaped pupils. Of course she can't actually have ones, but i love to draw her with it. Cindy's motive, for me, is in some way her desire, desperation for love, To be loved and protected, and her wrong occupancy of what is love's meaning. I like to give it to her. Maybe in other arts it will work better as broken heart – but i really love to give her heart pupils in hints of her motif as I see it.

In a way, in kindergarten 1 Cindy's outfit is combined by what she herself chose. I imagine her with tutu pink skirt, unicorn t-shirt and cheap colorful beaded necklace. Kind of the way little children usually see something being pretty or fancy – as much as you can carry and glitters. I think i mentioned it before on previous posts, but i see Cindy as little girl who like very girly coded stuff, so of course she will love unicorns.

I must admit that for me Cindy is very mary-jane shoes child. That how i imagine her first. However she HAS some kind of sneakers in the first game. I don't remember who it was, and I'll gladly give the credit for them if they will ask, but i saw someone suggesting Cindy having that kids sneakers that flash while stepping, and from then i can't imagine her sneakers different from that. I also imagine those shoes still very girly-sh, pink coloured and with hearts over them.

I always imagine kindergarten 2 be more high-society related. And I believe Cindy's mother, who is like to potray her self as good and caring mother, will put extra effort in her child's first impression to school staff: doll-like dress, more elegant shoes, new tights, and of course pigtails with cute ribbons. Does she spend the time to make her child meal to take with her? Give her some money to buy lunch? No, but she makes sure her child would look amazing because for her that what's matter. And that point of view effect her child in the way she see the world, but that for a different post.

Cindy's outfit in kindergarten3 return to be little more simple, still very cutesy, but less fancy, maybe more fit to play and run around, as it's should be for outfit for a kid. I LOVED her jumper dress. It's so cute. I also love to finally use flowers themed in her outfit except of the hairpins. I think it's really suits Cindy to have flowers in her outfit. Her clothes are in darker shades – I checked, and it's actually seems that the color of her clothes very similar to her sprite in kg2, but I decide to still go for the more darker shades, combine with her facial expression being grumpy instead of the bratty smile I always give her.

I not a huge fan of how Cindy was portrayed in kindergarten 3. For me she's feel grotesque and not very similar to how I take her from the previous games. She was different. No longer looking for boyfriend as she always do, much more violent and taking acts on her own hands instead of sending some boy to do it for her. She still one of my favorites, but I have some opinions on how she's been writed. But I decide to take those things and reflect them on her design in kindergarten 3: less light bright, darker shades instead. No more mischievous smile, but angry expression. I can't actually blame her: she's a little kid who has to move to 2 different schools day after day. That little child, and all the other children deserves to finally have a break and actual decent kindergarten experience. Somebody save them all.

You have to understand I work with THAT on those designs

Such a stressful experience

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Continue my kg designs!

I think the real question is how i make this only now and not earlier, the only children with actual surname, the Huxley twins!

And, Huxley Twins focused post, some of children ab*se/neg*ect will be discussed.

First of all, i feel like i need to talk about this: yes, i don't have a specific side for their side hair. I changed it based on their angle. In my defence, it's the same in their sprites in the game.

What i focus on is the way each one's hair is combed. The 'lower' part is far from Felix's forehead, while it's on Ted's forehead in his sprite. As we can see here:

So i always make Ted's on his forehead, sometimes even covering one of his eyes a little, while Felix's hair is combed sideways or backwards.

Now, i can focus on their design in general!

I imagine the twins having sculpted features: long face, high cheekbones, very straight nose. In a way their features are more built than a regular child of their age. I also imagine them being taller than the rest of the kids. However i do imagine Felix's features slightly sharper while Ted's are softer. Not only because the sprites can imply that, but because it also implies their personality: Ted is more soft and nicer throughout the game than Felix.

I imagine their hair being very light shaded, almost platinum. I imagine them having light shades in general, skin, hair, eyes. The little funny fact about their eyes' color is that i couldn't decide if they have brown eyes or blue eyes, so i decided on partial heterochromia and i love it: it gives them more unique look and i imagine them having kind of prominent/distinctive appearance.

I like to give them outfits of british boarding school uniform vibes. I feel it truly suits them, and more importantly how Mr. Huxley would like them to look. They why they have short slacks with knee socks and formal, classy shoes that are probably not convenient or suits to run around and play. I see their clothes being completely the same except for the color. Matching sets. Even their socks are the same pattern, but opposite "main" color.

In my opinion, Mr Huxley does not see them as individuals, but kinda as one single thing he can design and play with as he pleases. In addition to that I do believe that he understands how 'marketable' identical twins are in matching outfits in our society and dresses them up the same for his own benefit. And of course, giving them the same pairs of clothes saves the need to choose every time how to dress each one of them.

Felix's pose is more confident, even mature in some way. His clothes and hair are neater and arranged. He also is not smiling. Smiling is not professional, and all Felix wants to be is professional. I imagine him caring deeply about his appearance, more about the professional, adult look than other options. I feel like he will be offended by being called a cute kid or something like that. Felix wants to be a proper businessman, not a little kid.

Ted's pose is more shy and submissive in some way. He tend to obey Felix and follow his lead. However he is more friendly than Felix. Personally i always see him having much higher social skills than his twin brother, so i keep him smiling and look more approachable to interact with. I do give him a less arranged appearance: his tie and collar are slightly creased. His Applesoft's pin is placed crookedly, his socks are not stretched like Felix's. It's not that Ted is sloppy, but he's not as neat and tidy as Felix.

Ted is still a child, which is a good thing, even if his father, his twin brother and he himself don't think that way.

Now, Felix in kg3!

Felix seems not to have the power he had in the previous game. He's not with his brother whom's he can order around. His brother actually deceived him and made him sent to the wrong school. He's not having a lot of money as before, so he can't even bribe the other kids as he used to. I feel like a lot of how Felix was written in kg3 was to mock him. But I felt very sorry for him. First of beacose I don't enjoy from the thought of little kid suffering, even if they are fictional. But also because he's really in a situation he's not ready for or practiced for. It's completely logical for him to be more confused or on edge.

That's why his pose is far less confident than how it was in his kg2 design. Actually, his pose is very similar to Ted's. Arms behind his back, no more standing tall, but a bowed head. His expression is also different. In kg2 it was almost emotionless, now it's sullen and grumpy. He's not where he's supposed to be, but he can't do much about it, and I feel like it's a very new unexperienced situation for Felix.

Another thing is the way Ted's clothes are being put on Felix. I think I mentioned it in previous posts, but I imagine Ted being more athletic than Felix, and I think it's also expressed in Ted is like one size bigger than Felix. It's not just that Felix wears clothes that are not his, but they don't fit him right. He can't stretch the socks as he did with his. Those clothes by their size make him look less organized, less like himself. It's a little thing i like to do also to emphasize Felix's situation in kg3, in some way maybe enhance his discomfort. But it feels very suits to me.

Another last thing is his bruises and the dirt on him. Felix HAS THROWN FROM A MOVING CAR at the beginning of the day. In the real world he probably would break a bone. It's not the real world, but i still give this act affect him a little. He's not brutally injured, nothing serious, but still some kind of wounding. Also dirt that sticks to his clothes that he can't get off. Another thing that is very different from his neat look in the previous game, and probably another thing that put him on the edge.

I want to hug both of them. They deserve a much better caregiver than that disgusting human being who called Mr Huxley.

More than 1000 words, sorry guys. Especially because im pretty sure i has other things i wanted to say that i forgot.

Hope to finish at least all the kids!

Sad news. I can't find my other short pencil<\3 but i still got that one. Look. It's almost the same length as the sharpener.

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Our sneaky girl Carla!

Usually i try to stick to the sprite when i make the design. But in Carla's i couldn't. In her sprite Carla wearing a skirt. All the girls wearing skirts or dresses in those games. But, come on, we talking about the child who sneaking through vents. I can't see it wearing other than shorts. So even i technically had to put her in skirt, i gave her short jeans. She had green sneakers and green sport jacket with sereval sticky plasters, regular this time. I feel like Carla wouldn't care much about colourful or cute ones.

As shirt, i chose to give her little pony shirt. It's mentioned that Carla love ponies, and from that moment i adore the idea of Carla being my little pony fan. It ao cute to me. I love to think about those traumatized children doing regular activities of 5 years old. I chose rainbow dash beacose i felt like Carla would really love her. I need Carla and Cindy fighting over which pony is better. I need all the kids watching my little pony together.

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Continue my kindergarten's cast design, my design for our loveble android child, Penny!

I LOVE the more android/robotic features a lot of others artists in the kindergarten gave her. Seriously, this fandom full of creative, orginal people and I love it so much.

I wanted to make her a bit uncanny. Her being an android is kind of big reveal, so I believe her appearance can for most of the time look like regular, human child. However, I do believe something is a bit uncanny, like her facial expressions, that can be extremal, but at the same time kinda blank, lacking real emotion.

I like to imagine her having more robotic, metallic limbs. So she always wearing tights and gloves to keep them hidden. I imagine her outfit kinda old fashioned style, what is maybe also put her in the uncanny valley.

Again from more artistic choice, I like to not giving her any pupils at all. For the off vibes I imagine she has. Like something is a little weird but you don't sure exactly why, because everything is mostly fine.

I also like to give her bright green eyes, hints of the goo she's running on. Eye's color that can be natural, but on her, again, something is not exactly right.

I love Penny so much. She's such a tragic character. She's deserves so much better.

Anyway, that it. I might continue with other characters as well.

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This time it's our detective child's designs in each game!

Lily and Cindy are the only characters who changed outfit each game. And it's really interesting to me.

I imagine Lily being chubby with soft, round features: round face, round nose. Very soft figure.

Lily in kg1 is MISERABLE. My heart is went out for her.

Her brother is missing, she's forced to go to the place that run by the person she believes is responsible for her brother's disappear. Nobody believe her, and beside all that, she's being bullied daily by the other girl in their kindergarten. Her mental state and self esteem feels very fragile to me in kg1. Gosh, this girl need a hug.

Little thing I did is to give her the same flower I made as Cindy's flower. Their sprite very similar. Whatever if it's the flower Billy got from Cindy and Lily is trying to keep something that belongs to him with her, or if it flower Lily herself got from Cindy in the past, and they were having some kind of close connection – I'm not sure if I have one opinion, but I love the idea of Lily wearing one of Cindy's flowers in her head, maybe that what piss Cindy off do much. Of course it's not justify the tortue she making Lily deal with.

In kg2, interaction with Lily's b0dy will give you 2 outfits: one is her blue hoodie, and one is some blue dress that seems like the top part in her sprite in kg1 and the bottom part of her sprite in kg3. I might have to draw this outfit too. But you can't actually see it on her. Only you can wear it. So I deside to skip on it. Hope you'll forgive me.

Lily in kg3 changed the most. She wearing light blue dress, and changed even the flower.

I gave her very casual, simple dress. I feel like Lily going for more practical outfits. I also tried to make seem more confident and calm. That's way this time I also made her hair more tidy – no longer on her face or eyes. She's still on her mission to stop the terror that going on what seems like all the kindergartens in this city, but her brother is safe. She knows what to do, and seems like don't take the adults around too seriously.

Even if the color is quite the same as her sprite in kg1 I decide to make it light blue instead of the more dark teal I made her wearing in kg1 to present her more mental state being in better place. I'm glad she feels better. She deserves that. I really love Lily a lot.

Look at my pencil so brave

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Our black market boy, Monty!

Even if Monty don't change outfit each game, his sprite did change a lot, so i deside to draw him each time.

I kinda headcanon monty being younger than the rest of the kids. I think that technically it's not right, but i always thought his sprite is a little smaller compare the rest. In addition to that, i think it's add more deaph to his smugness if he younger than the rest, and still smarter. he tend to disparage the rest of the kids, especially those who considered as stupid. So him being younger emphasize him being little genius child even more.

I imagine his orange hair being more light shaded, really more carrot than redish. I also imagine him full of freckles. Not only on his face, but full body.

I like to give Monty clothes with a lot of pockets. For him to keep his money and market things inside.

In kg1 Monty is in his best position. He's have his role in the kindergarten that's seems to keep him away from getting bullied or mocked. This role keeps him in good relationships with the Popular kid, the bully never bother him. He seems to be confident in his place. So i draw him in his most confident pose, even smiling, and of course with money in his hand.

It's the first time i draw wheelchair and i apologise if i make mistakes.

Monty's sprite in kg2 loses his freckles for eye bags. I give him both. Monty seemed less smuggy in kg2. He's have very traumatic experience in the previous day and he need to deal with that, including pay his medical bills. He has a lot to deal with, and he less patient and friendly.

Every time i talking about kg3 i sound like a hater. I love those games. I have my criticism about them, and especially in kg3. All the way Monty written in kg3 felt very ooc for me. This child is black market dealer. He's based all of his relationships and connections on his business. Him give up all of it to walk contradicts the way he was written in the previous games. And by it's core feels kinda abe*ist to me.

All the joke about him being pissed because he need to wear dress also was very annoying at best.

But here he is. Still with eye bags. Still not happy. This time his jacket's sleeves aren't rolled up because he trying to hide the dress' sleeves. He has penny's shoes and tights. I based in the fact he can't remove the dress. Everything is a little too big on him beacose i again imagine him smaller compare most of the kids.

I hope you'll return to be our black market king, Monty. You deserve that.

My pencil is working hard

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It's our missing twin, Billy's turn!

I imagine Billy and Lily have quitly similar look: both are naturally chubby with round and soft fictures.

We don't know how much time Billy went missing. Couple days at least, and I personally got the feeling of weeks. His sprite in kg1 give the feeling he's been through a lot, Wich is not surprising. I make him be more pale than he used to be, with dark bags around his eyes(like his sprite) and quite long hair that very messy. He also has no shoes. We know about at least one shoe that he loses, and based on his torn clothes i will not be surprised the other one got destroyed or disappeare too. I'm not remember that it's said wich finger he missed, so i decide on the middle one.

In kg2 Billy looked better. He have a day to rest, get a haircut and probably it is better for him to stay at home to rest. But again we have either parents who sent their kids to kindergarten even if they not supposed to, or not notice their child who was missing got missing again.

i imagine Billy also prefers practical and casual clothes, similar to his sister. So he had his brown hoodie, blue sneakers and short dark jeans. I think it's really cute.

Now to the eyes. Billy was a different kind of monster than the other monsters. It's might be he supposed to be like the monsters we see in the later games, but the white monsters are different and I refer Billy to them. I gave him white cycles around the pupils, hint/leftovers of what he was at some point.

I wish we could see more of Billy. In some way he is the key, at least in the first game. But we actually don't hear much about his personallity. even in the second game, when he appear we can't get much about himself. I want to more about him. I want to be able to write 500 words explaining why i decide about different details in his design. I love you Billy, I want to learn more.

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Continue my kg design!

Our super cool kid, Jerome!

Technically I didn't had to draw him twice. Jerome's outfit didn't change between the games, but his act is so different and I felt I have to point that.

Jerome starts as a confident kid. He is the cool guy, and his father is the principal, what's give Jerome, at least in his eyes, more power in the school than the other kids. It's might even be true – we see the janitor is not hesitate to brutally hurt other kids who did something he didn't like. However, he not hurting Jerome and just follow him around. I'm not sure that the only reason Jerome spinning around and doing what he wants. He is confident kid and it's actually a good thing. Kids suppose to feel safe and confident in themselves.

I imagine Jerome being kinda the athletic kid. His shirt reminds me a lot of sport tank top. So I decide also on sport shorts and sport shoes for him.

I gave him sereval colorful sticky plasters. I feel like Jerome will believe that wearing sticky plasterer is very cool, beacose it's mean you did something to get it. I also gave him missing tooth. It's common in this age to start lose your milk teeth and I feel like Jerome will be very proudwof his missing teeth.

In kg2, however, Jerome is very different. For mist of the game he will just cry. It's kinda interesting that it's seems he's not ashamed to cry in public. Other kids are judging him about it , but it's not seeme it bothers him. He is mourning. No only he lost his father just yesterday, he at least hear very disturbing details about how his father was found, if not found it himself. What kind of mother sent her child to kindergarten one day after he loses his dad? Well, here another example of problematic parent in kindergarten games! Everyone take a sip of water.

So I mostly just change his pose and expression. No more smile, less confident standing, tears.

I really love Jerome, sometime I feel like he don't get enough credit as he deserves. He one of the kids who knows how to read and write, he's interested in riddles. He knows how to work with his father's device. He shows a little of manipulation skills, when he send you to do for him missions all days "beacose that what friends do for eachother." He has more skills and personality than being the cool/crying kid. I really love Jerome. Please let him see therapist.