Could you to Willow? She's my fav and I can't believe she's not on the list!
Of course! Here's my willow redesign:
Willow's was a redesign I was super excited to do, mostly because I had a lot of ideas surrounding how I could change her appearance to better suit her name and personality! I did like willow's canon design, but I always thought it was a little bit bland compared to some of the other leafwings and wanted to right that wrong.
The most obvious changes I made were to Willow's body shape and webs - when making this design, I wanted to go for a gentle-giant look (and yes I am imagining Willow as 4x bigger than Sundew,) mimicking the height and size of a willow tree by giving her a more graceful/smooth body shape that bends like the tree's branches. In order to fully accomplish this Willow-look, I also made her spine webs much longer and droopier - kind of like a horse's mane. The finishing touch to this transformation was adding long willow branch patterns on her web membrane. The end result is still more subtle than I would've liked, but the alternative (giving her willow branches that looked like hair) made Willow look like she was from a totally different tribe. RIP.
I kept her colors slightly the same, using light fern greens for her scales and wing patterns but adding darker tones for her wing/webs/horns. The pattern itself is very fluid, with swirls and small leaf-veins on her legs and stomach. I think this might just be the least jagged pattern I've ever used on a redesign, since most of my works will have at least some element of sharpness in the pattern! While I am slightly worried that this doesn't look like Willow anymore, I guess my redesign wouldn't be very good if she came out looking exactly how she went in.
Thanks so much for checking this design out! As always, I am still taking requests - and my pinned post includes a ton of useful information, such as which characters are on the waitlist and my artfight/discord/art contest links!
