My friends bought me @audraauclair's 'Masayume' Japan art book and it made for perfect reading on my scenic route home. #art #artbook #audraauclair #masayume #japan #japanart #reading #trainjourney #scenes #view #wales #cymru #cymruambyth #💜 (at Aberystwyth)
this was for a magical girl crossover collab on instagram, where we all took our magical girl characters and designed them to be in a different series 💕
comparison between their normal designs. these makes me laugh a little. just... when I was drawing, I thought 'jeez, these look to similar to their prexisting designs, don't they??' NO I DON'T THINK THEY DO WHEN THEY'RE SIDE BY SIDE. I am pretty happy with the fact they're still all still recognizable at least... a lot of aqua's design specifically does reference some of her older designs!!
I was a HUGE winx fan as a kid (I think it did come on the same channel/day as mew mew power did?? along with ygo.. like what a good lineup. formative to me.) I haven't revisited it in years, maybe I should...? 👀
for these I drew more inspo from the upgraded winx forms like enchantix etc rather than the base forms (as iconic as those are, I really wanted to do more detailed designs, since this was a design-based collab, yk?) I love that winx style gave me an excuse to go as ham on the sparkles as I always want to. also, the proportions!! They are like bugs, to me... kind of fun but also very weird for me to draw. I def still added my own lil touches/style in there when coloring 🤷♂️
here are the initial design sketches I did before the illustration!
I ended up simplifying them a lot to make them work more for that and changing up colors, but I think it's fun to show these early stage concepts sometimes🥲 rip masayume's big awesome boa!!! It just wasn't working for the angle BUT if I ever revisit these designs, rest assured she'll get it back. also you can read my silly little notes and see how I just. ignored the ideas I had for the wings when I actually sat down to draw them lol like sometimes it truly does turn into a 'no i dont think i will go with that idea' flow state where I just black out designing smth 😭
I originally kind of wanted mira's wings to come up behind her head and look like donkey ears, but i just could NOT make it work. if anything, sapote's lil headband wing situation looks more like ears 😔 oh well!!
process gif:
if you can believe it, the lineart took the longest out of anything... clean thin lines, my enemy... the full PSD file is on my kofi btw if you wanna look at the layers!! here :> (tho be warned, it is a BIG file!!!)
this year we're doing something interactive! YOU will choose who of my characters goes on a date, and where, and I'll make art for it for valentines after tallying the votes from here and instagram!
(the location poll will be in the reblogs of this one, since I can't add two polls to one post, apparently, so I ask that you reblog that version with the location poll included!!)
Who will Mira go on a date with this Valentine's day?
