I never quite know how alien to make the motherlanders. they should be alien enough to challenge cultural expectations and force you to relate to someone different than yourself, but they shouldn’t be so alien as to be unrelatable. there
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Tag: art
Setting the setting
As some may have noticed, I don’t like drawing backgrounds. They drive me nuts and bore me to tears. it’s not so much that I can’t, I just don’t care. In particular, I hate interiors. But I knew that the
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GLADIATORS
GLADIATORS!! more or less. not sure they’ll actually be called gladiators, but that’s basically what they are. I have some fun ideas and some unique (?) twists I’m looking forward to whenever I show them.
An anachronistic (?) choice of head coverings
i’m cool making style choices that might seem anachronistic to us. turns out golf visors would be perfect for antelope ears. even if i doubt they would be familiar with a good 18 holes of the king’s game there’s no reason
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WARNING: incoming karate chop
playing around drawing some ladies and good old dynamic possés so why not make one a kangaroo lizard WHATCHU SOME KINDA KUNG FU WRESTLER?? WINDMILL KICK THAT NON-EXISTENT SUB BUTTON BOYEE (or lady)
(Lack of) programming skills, part 2
some more pixel testing stuff. man i wanna make this game but unfortunately that means i have to actually make it. the game would have a lot of dialogue interactions so expressions would be important. and also i like doing them. these
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The tragedies of colorblindness, part 2
the wife helps with color schemes a lot lmao. color helps but it’s not really my thing. doesn’t really excite me and i don’t think in color. kinda sucks cause I think it would help differentiating the characters but B&W
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If only we weren’t colorblind
some more outfit ideas. mostly made-up but they have some inspiration from african and some middle eastern designs. i steal elements from things i like all the time just like pretty much every other artist on the planet.again, trying to
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It’s more practical than it looks
in the days before industrialization, women deserved some major props for their work especially when they had to carry loads themselves. in many places around the world they still do, and carrying supplies on their heads still is a common
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Words about words
As mentioned previously, I spent a couple weeks before ch3 doodling the characters and trying to streamline them more before I had to draw them in motion. In hindsight I wish I did that more for ch2, but hopefully I
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