"Aw, it's Pride Month! Let's take an advantage to p-"
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"WAITWHATDOYOUMEANITISNOWJUNE28ST?????????"
Yeah... Winter's here :DDDD But I still desire to share some LGBT stuff nonetheless, so lemme share something I had long ago.
In context, back in June 2020 (The pandemie, quarantine, etc) I remember it was popular to do "colorpicked" pride flags, basically just using the eyedrop tool and color the stripes in base of a character or franchise. Some of the results were stunning, I gotta admit, so it made me curious to try it out. However, also around the time of the trend, I was super obsessed with SP Fixers; which was a team I felt more comfortable exploring topics of sexuality and gender with. They were the perfect match for this idea!
...When I realized it had been FIVE years since I made these, I genuinely couldn't believe it 😭 I'm too scared of how time flies... But at least I'll take advantage of it and share 'em.
So to start, all the flags I did alongside the initial pallete:
And below, some icons I did based off these.
Gay (+ overall LGBT flag): Hayate Hayato. The LGBT flag is my fav out of all, really love how the colors look together. <3
Pansexual + Nonbinary flag: Sakite Masaru
Gay + Ace flag: Tamakura Geki
Transgender flag: Hikage Linda. Also another favorite, it looks so pretty ♥
I gotta be sincere, even though its my flag, the Bisexual one was the HARDEST to replicate :( None of the colors compiled (Both from and outside my pallete) look any good value-wise and they looked messy no matter how much I tried. I'm so sorry :(
Kinda sucks bc I have a lot of Bis on this team. Kagami Houko is one of them; so here's her I guess...
Next to her is Sayaka Tanabe. She's from Ichibangai Sally's, but 1- I wanted to showcase the Lesbian flag too, and 2- I didn't want to separate the gfs <3 This flag was also really hard to do as there weren't many orange-ish colors on the first place; and in times it ended up looking dangerously close to the "outdated" version. The addition of the red was a last-minute idea, but I'm not 100% happy with it.
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BONUSES:
A 2nd version of the all-flags image but with re-touches done to both the Gay and Lesbian flags. I've already commented the why on Sayaka's icon; but when it comes to the other flag it just simply bothered me how the colors looked vs the original, plus its similarities with the Aromantic flag. There's also the Intersex flag as a last minute addition :>
Aaaaand here's how the new version looks on both Geki and Hayato:
If there's another flag you'd be interested on seeing a recolor with, feel free to ask!! I'd love to experiment with this again.
