#moon silverdusk

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Okay I revised the piece a bit. I figured out that by moving the glasses and by having high-contrast stockings but low-contrast sleeves, I was drawing focus away from the face. So I gave her a hair bow and some colorful makeup to try and balance out the colors more.

I like this alot better and I'm glad I revisited it! sometimes talking through a problem is just what you need XP

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drew this one of Moon in her human form! I totally winged it for the outfit, the romper is pretty much unlike anything I'e put her in before and it's inspired by a dress I saw on pinterest, and I can't decide if I like it or not. tried a new method of drawing her hair. I wanted to incorporate some wolf-y stuff since I now have a pinterest board overflowing with inspo for her wolf form, but wasn't feeling it by the time I got to this point in the piece. threw on a quick and dirty background and lighting overlay, and here we are! might revisit this in future:

also note to self: don't use straight white in lighting overlays bc she looks really washed out.

this has been sitting in my drafts for literal months, so I might as well post it now! this one has slightly different stylization of her hair than I usually go for, but it's still cute! can't say as much for the outfit, I have no idea what I was thinking -_-

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hiiiiiii :3

Lesbian Pride Moon! there are parts of this design where I also mixed in elements of the sapphic flag. this pride month design was super fun to work on! tbh I'm kind of in a transition phase with my digital art process, trying to work more iteration into the process. If you check my art blog, I actually posted the thumbnail for this piece, working just with color and shape to get her outfit down before I started sketching the pose. I used 3 layers of sketches for this one! the first layer was very basic, I just wanted to hash in the proportions and the motion/angles, the second sketch was more in line w what I normally do on a first sketch for a more stagnant pose, and the final included clothes and cleaner lines. I also did less colored lineart than usual, still deciding how I feel about that. I do rlly like the pose tho, I didn't do that much canvas flipping but I still think it looks nicely balanced!

[ID: digital drawing of Moon, a half wolf girl with light brown skin and dark brown hair in a short afro with 2 long thin braids, wolf ears, a speckled dog nose, and a wagging wolf tail. She is balanced on one leg as the other is kicked out in front of her, she's leaning forward and giving a peace sign with one hand. She has on big round gold glasses, a pink tank top, and a black pleated skirt. She has rainbow kandi on her wrist and tail, silver chains of her tail and neck, and a flower pendant necklace. her leg warmers and mismatched arm warmers all have colors from the lesbian flag. end ID]

tbh, before starting this drawing, I didn't rlly think abt Moon's particular identity beyond there being a character I was thinking of making her gf, so as of today she is a lesbian! This was so fun I might just keep doing these for other characters. I am kind of entertaining the idea of doing Valentine, but I think he would not like wearing his flag colors. I'll figure it out. And maybe I should finally get around to redesigning Deuce so I can make an aro flag design!

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tried to make Moon in her human and half-wolf forms on picrew, how do y'all think I did?

(her regular portraits for comparison)

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Moon Design options???

For all the options I wanted to work with the details visible in her portrait, since I did the portrait and design out of order. I knew I needed the red blouse, which I matched to her shoe color, and the black bralette/camisole, but I tried slightly different styles in each iteration, in addition to changing the bottom half of her outfit. I think I want to come up with a final design that combine my favorite elements, but for now uhhhh here they are!