Over a year ago now, colourpop announced they were doing a collaboration with Naruto and I was so excited! As a fan of both, I was keen to see what they would do. Naruto, like all anime, has a bunch of cool and important colours that I thought would make for some interesting and rarely seen colour stories.
Unfortunately I didn't love what eventually came out.
I realise there's lots of different things at play here. I suspect they only had the rights to naruto, and nothing from shippuden. Which is why they use blue to represent sasuke, instead of purple. I think they focussed more on everyday user friendly colours, but I want to be a clown at all times. Also a BIG missed opportunity to appeal to the sasunaru girlies. We could have done completely separate pallets? Pallets for different clans? Villages? Could have been a lot of fun.
So l decided to take matters into my own hands and design something I felt represents Naruto a bit better, with colours that I assosciate strongly with the series. I couldn't decide between just a Naruto pallet or a sasunaru inspired one, so I tried my hand at both. This was a fun experiment and I definitely have things I would change now, like figuring out how to get the internal patterns to line up, but it was fun to do something more design-y.
