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Tag: shape

Nations and shape language

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Cal

been working on this for a while now. Since there are a variety of people groups and nations in the story, I am doing my best to work on making each nation have shapes (roughly) specific to them. not last
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Otigo Trappings

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Cal

as always, playing with things to see what i like and what i don’t. in real life people wouldn’t dress like they do in the fire nation (“we all have to wear red!”), but it definitely helps the reader. you
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The shape of your average LADY (and boy)

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Cal

some more body shape doodles. just seeing what works and what doesn’t for the story. trying to design the clothes hand in hand with body shapes, which i haven’t done as much in the past as i probably should. the
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At a glance

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Cal

I find silhouettes and shapes just as important as detail. Silhouettes can be tough for me to integrate into the background and still make it look good. always learning. I find a lot of these have interesting shapes which can
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The shape of your average boy

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Cal

i said earlier that i was trying to be more intentional about body shapes in ch4. there are a few reasons for this. first off, it helps differentiate the characters better. that has always been a challenge with any non-human
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