(I'm also going to reblog them right after this is posted)
I'm gonna ramble under the cut about the designs n stuff but you can scroll past that to get to the timelapse if u want.
@jotg-miraculousrewriteau is where you'll see any updates about this story/au/rewrite I have going on if you get interested. It'll take some time before I get around to writing it but I'll be trying to draw more. I'll list some reasons for why I haven't gotten much out recently under the cut. Not abandoning the au tho!
This one was a STRUGGLE and part of it was because I still liked last year's and because my interest in ml has taken a back burner with other interests BARGING IN this year.
Not to say that I don't want to work on my rewrite anymore, but I'm probably gonna do some more rewatching so I can get fully back into it again. I can't really plop down what I've come up with for the rewrite and be satisfied anyway, so I'm stuck until I get the thing written and drawn.
THAT ASIDE, I changed up their posing again and included updates to the character design. I don't know if what I've drawn Marinette in here will stick for her redesign as far as outfits are concerned, but I don't really like the previous outfit I gave her anymore so I needed to work with something new.
Overall I like how this turned out, even if I'm a bit unsure abt other areas.
Specifics: Once again, I liked coloring and drawing Marinette more which shouldn't be a surprise since I have more to work with in her design. I made the foolish mistake of not including her freckles in the past, so now I'm amending for that. She's sort of matching her bf now.
I included some lore bits abt Tikki and Marinette's complicated relationship here that I haven't talked abt before. Marinette is not doing anything to Tikki intentionally, but I have a plot line in the story I have planned that involves how the kwamis went from deities to kwamis. Got caged in the miraculous. And the consequences that follow.
INcluding Marinette and Tikki gaining a strained relationship for the majority of the story.
But that's all I'll say on that for now.
You might notice Marinette's skintone has changed a bit from other redesigns. What happened was, when I was first coming up with ideas for the rewrite, I was going off of critisysms I saw a lot and noting them down. One, was that Mari didn't look like she was biracial and her skin tone should reflect that. Now. I was young and figured "Oh okay! So. Lets look up what average chinese skintones are!" ...I found the racist color swatches that got pretty close to yellow and I ignorantly changed her skin tone to that.
So! Now her skin tone is closer to canon's and I've decided anything about her heritage isn't something I'll tackle in my rewrite/au since I'm not qualified. I still have some things I've changed so she looks similar to both parents, but no more of that skin tone.
Lol I didn't get the timelapse started until the basic sketches were completed
People who have been here for a year, remember this? :)
I reblogged the post from a year ago a couple days ago but if not 2021 version is right here
Update: 2023 Version Here
The designs for Ladybelle and Marinette's redesigns have changed a little but the colors remain similar. I got to play around a little more with how the colors fit with the background/overall color palette in a way. I like it much more than last years, more dull colors lol
It was fun to change up the poses to be more dynamic! I'm really happy with how it turned out
Here's to 2023, hopefully it won't suck too badly and I'll actually get started WRITING this AU/Rewrite!
I'm gonna continue posting these redraws on my main account instead of the @jotg-miraculousrewriteau even though these drawings are for the jotg au
As usual there should be a timelapse of this on Instagram's version, I will update this if the timelapse doesn't work
More doodles + a little more information about how Marinette and Adrien were chosen! I gotta remind myself that no one’s gonna be interested in my rewritten AU if I don’t SHARE any of the changes before I start writing and posting it.
-Marinette in the beginning doesn’t like Adrien very much and it takes a season for her to warm up to him and get a crush on him
-The ladybug and cat miraculous usually have their owner chosen by the Kwami’s themselves, since they are the best judge of people who fit their values. But because of the way their miraculous are programmed, when one kwami chooses their holder, the other only has a set amount of time to find their holder.
-This is to prevent large gaps of time between chosen holders. (theres also a rule that the age gap can’t be very large to prevent absurd age gaps where the partners can’t connect to each other)
Plagg rushes to get Adrien because he wants to break this goodie two shoes that could be a GREAT cat. Also because he senses something mysterious and eerie from the mansion that he can’t quite place. That leaves Tikki to find the closest 15 year old that fits her criteria for a good Ladybug.
Plagg and TIkki both judge the heck out of each other’s chosen holder in the first season. I’ll be drawing this out eventually. If you have any questions about my rewrite, feel free to leave them in the comments and if I deem them not really spoilery, I’ll answer!
I think I’m really proud of this one. I wanted to make something with all my skills and a lot of effort to see how far I could go and I’m pretty satisfied with the result.
Ya know, despite all the LadyNoir stuff I’ve been making recently, my favorite ship in the Lovesquare is actually MariChat! I just haven’t been able to draw my MariChat redesign yet cause I haven’t finalized Marinette’s usual appearance.
For all my Miraculous Fans, What’s your favorite ship from Miraculous Ladybug?
A while back, I saw a post with someone’s progress over the years and their improvement as they redrew the same art work. I wanted to do something similar this year with my redesigns of Ladybug and Marinette.
Next year on the 30th of December I’ll redraw this so I can see how far I’ve gotten.
I finally drew LadyNoir with my redesigns! I got this done before I actually finished Chat Noir’s redesign art so I will be posting Chat Noir’s design soon so you can see his color scheme without any shading.
I’m really proud of his design and I’ll go into detail what I changed and why I changed it when I post his full design. Same goes for Ladybelle since her design has also gone through a few changes since the last time I drew her!
SHE IS HERE, NEW AND IMPROVED! (Without Instagram's clipping curse)
I knew from the very beginning I wanted to redesign Ladybug's suit in Canon and I'm kinda happy with what I have now with, Ladybelle. It didn't make much sense to me to keep the blue hair and eyes in her civilian form, but I really liked that the kwami's altered their eyes and hair. Chat Noir's design has been altered to reflect this too.
I added gloves, boots and a vest (kind of) to make the design more interesting and a(n infinite) bag would be attached to the vest thing later on when she becomes guardian. It would be removable like Chat Noir's belt. I decreased the amount of spots from my last design just to keep it simpler. I'm not AS happy with this color palette as I am with Chat Noir's but I still think this design is pretty final.
