‘Tis done finally! Critical Fan art of the Sparkletones and thier Malgublyet makeovers from episode #497. Episodes were there are makeovers are some of my all time favorites and this one was a doozy! It instantly sparked my creativity. Whenever possible, I love to brandish my love for costume/clothes design. Especially when you get the reactions we did from the crew from their new duds. While working on this I realized just how long it’s been since my last fan art I’ve done for Critical Hit. So this was more than overdue. Plus it gave me a chance to play with character designs themselves again.
For those interested, here is my breakdown for each character’s outfit:
Randus: Probably the easiest design for me to come up with, because as soon as the items “Bigger stupider goggles and elbow length gloves” were uttered, my thoughts immediately went to: “Oh, those cute fashion Goblins are going for mad scientist-meets-blacksmith.” So really it’s a more goofier version of his usual adventuring gear, with a hint of flare through out (since they are about to meet a very style over function God). I imagine that Randus doesn’t mind the look too much since at the very least, it isn’t like the formal attire he has to wear back at home (you know, clothes he has to keep clean and are far too lacking in the pocket department). However, he definitely keeps the bandanna on because #1: He always wears it when adventuring because he’s a sentimental mush. #2: Goblins think it works with the outfit. #3: I adore bandannas. Lol.
Orem: Oh my gods...this was amazing to design because the goal was coming up with something Orem would just absolutely be miserable in but still be sorta fashionable in a “retro/thrift store wizard shop” way. As soon as Rodrigo was an evil genius and told him it was a comical red wizard outfit; far different then Orem’s usual preferred fashion of light, form fitting, elegant, white and blue Eladrin silks...I had to take it up a notch and a half! I made the already suggested floppy wizard hat, even more floppy and implying that it’s made of a gross suede material that would just really amplify the feeling of a weighty, miserable hat. The outer robe I also wanted to be made out of a suede, very heavy material that wouldn’t match his hat. Tied in a gaudy silk braided belt. Lets face it, Orem seems the type to hate outfits in which patterns and/or textures don’t vibe well for an overall look. Which Lastly is why I came up with a “tacky” maroon star pattern robe for underneath his outer robe so it could clash and act as the stereotypical nod to wizards wearing robes with stars on them.
Little Sparkle: Sparkle’s all grey, Goblin vision of what a “rouge” outfit was fun. Honestly the first couple a drafts I drew, I was going to go with very plain textures and coloring, but I really wanted to get creative with this “all grey” look. My justification was that Malgublyet’s idea of “simple or plain” is still pretty chic. It also helped that her attitude was all more than pleased with the outfit, so I wanted to put her in something that would still be really cute on her. I was really close to drawing her with the hood up, but I was just so happy with how my redesign of her came out (it’s been so long since I drew her, I had to change it up), I wanted to show off her pretty face and plumage! By the way, I now want those baggy-ass pants. They look gloriously comfy!!!
Ket and Gai: Holy cow...it was probably the fact that Gai was fluffed to look like a poodle that I made it a promise to draw the group’s fashion makeover. It doesn’t help that in the past I actually worked as a groomer and I have done my fair share of poodle grooming, so drawing Gai was just a funny and amazing experience. As for Ket, I took advantage of the fact it had been so long since I last drew him to redesign him from the ground up...and DAMN, he’s never looked more handsome in my opinion. As for his outfit, I chose royal blue/purple color schemes mainly because #1: I hardly doubt Ket’s choice of clothing really has these sorts of nice cool and rich colors and verity is the spice of life. And #2: It was made kinda as a slight to Orem because he adores blue and I’m sure he very much dislikes this atmosphere in which Ket is the more better dressed and fancy individual. LOL. Psst!!! BTW, OMG THAT MUSTACHE!!! <3
Sekhar: Once the description for him was made I was so stoked to get to work on the amazing Sekhar Obleea! I really love designing armor when given the chance, and huge shoulder piece ones are some of my favorites! For this, I wanted our favorite large, suave, Vampire fellow, to look like a major kick-ass, fashionable, knight in shining armor that would make bad guys weep about their own outfits and flee in shame. It helped too that he seemed quite pleased with the look, which to me meant that it must be dazzling to look at since I see Sekhar as someone who does occasionally enjoy dressing well, since after all he is handsome as f**k and he knows it. Lastly, just as a cute nod, it has “M” shaped motifs through out the design as tribute to the amazing Malgublyet.
I hope you fellow Critical Hit fans enjoy this as much as I liked making it. I would have finished it sooner, but it’s been a bit rough finding free time to work on this because currently @messybitch802 are still working on our Hobbit Fanfiction/Fanart project. So time for art has been eaten up by that as of late. It will probably be a while, but I do really want to do some more nice finished pieces of the crew’s time spent in Malgublyet’s domain because I really enjoyed those episodes. Especially focusing on Malgublyet himself. I ADORE HIM. Here is a link to doodles of my design of him btw -->X feel free to check out that process.
