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Jcyapha In reply to Ghosty-Birb [2018-12-26 19:09:20 +0000 UTC]

I’m glad you like the design. I was a little unsure that you actually liked it as you didn’t comment for a while. But I saw you favorited it a while ago, so that made me think that you liked it a little bit. Yeah, real life problems are very unfortunate, so I can’t say I blame you. 

Well, any hue of cyan is pretty much a favorite color for me, (My favorite color is Malibu/Celeste cyan after all.) so I was happy to work with my favorite color. Plus, blue hues are also great, so that just made me happier.

I can understand with the card themes, not exactly the biggest fan of them either, but I do find them interesting and they can create some rather unique designs. However, I personally tend to go light on the card suit theme when I do incorporate them as I feel it’s a cliche theme and looks better in subtle hints rather then slapped all over the design. So I incorporated the theme on the outfit just as acessories. 

Once again, I apologize if it wasn’t exactly what you asked for in terms of being directly Halloween themed. I just have vehement hate for Halloween and the prompt didn’t go into any details about being Halloween, therefore I made the choice to deviate from the prompt yet keep the essence of prompt with it since you can easily make her be more Halloween themed as she already has a gloomy/dark vibe to her and you can just add a little horror to make it Halloween.

This design is probably my favorite I’ve done so far in the exchange, so I’m glad you like her.

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Ghosty-Birb In reply to Jcyapha [2018-12-26 19:59:43 +0000 UTC]

i can understand that and it works ^^

Two different sides of the spectrum XD
I myself adore Halloween and love directly Halloween themes. Heck, one of my characters is legit pumpkin themed [bout him from someone who got him from a halloween advent someone else did] 

Overall I think the design's pretty good. She can easily be made spooky and that's good.  

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Jcyapha In reply to Ghosty-Birb [2018-12-26 21:59:50 +0000 UTC]

I actually love gloomy/dark themes, which is why I’m a huge fan for Dementia of the Shivering Isles from Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion. (Mania is awesome, but I like Demntia a little better since I find gloomy envoriments to represent me more and find them more beautiful.) However, I don’t like horror themes at all and I think that’s one reason why I hate Halloween since it’s basically horror and decorations depicting horror everywhere. I’m glad you can enjoy something that I simply can not. I seem like I’m the only person in the world who has despise for almost any holiday.

Pumpkins don’t necessarily have to be Halloween themed, in fact, I view pumpkins as autumn themed. Halloween tends to take things from the season such as pumpkins to make into something of its own, like a jack-o-lantern. I do like basing characters from autumn themes such as pumpkins, trees, colors, etc, so I don’t have any complains about basing your characters from anything autumn related.

Dark themes can can easily be turned into horror/spooky, which is why I did it anyway.

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Jcyapha In reply to Kinetic-duet [2018-12-03 21:49:11 +0000 UTC]

I know. She is an awesome character. I like gloomy/dark themes, I like eastern dragons and I like any hue of cyan, so this was just a cool character to draw. It also helps that blue and teal hues where incorporated. I’ve been especially liking the designs I’ve made in the last few months. (Two aliens and this.) However, I’m not so sure if I made the person happy with this. I mean, they favorited the picture, so at least that’s good.

It's no big deal. I just need to note the group if I get a prompt that I know I can’t do, which I can’t do feral prompts sadly.

I made her my avatar icon both because the character is cool and because I felt it would represent me more then my character, Nyasvia. However, I don’t expect the avatar icon to stay this way for more then a few months as I’ve said in my journal, I’m thinking about having my revamped avatar character be the icon since I think I’m set in stone with Jcyapha's face. (His body is still in question.) But for now, she’ll be my avatar icon.

I actually think I’m always cheating my out of doing Halloween themes due to me not liking Halloween and I always find a way to circumvent it by not having a direct correlation to the holiday. As such, I sometimes think I’m not giving the person the character they wanted despite trying to keep the essence of the prompt in mind while doing so. Luckily, I haven’t had a prompt yet that demands Halloween themes specifically, so I’m able to find a way out of doing Halloween. 

I've been working on outfits since the last several prompts I did didn’t really have anything fancy, just casual or minimal clothing. So I’m happy the outfit is giving more depth to the character.

As for giving ideas, I had several ideas myself on who the character could be. I’ve pictured her personality being mostly like a mix of Nina Sharp from Fringe and Papyrus from Undertale with some Sheogorath from Elder Scrolls games thrown in as well. As for career, I’ve had several ideas such as a casino manager, jester, puzzle maker, musician/composer, medium and even a game show host. I haven’t had much thought on backstory though. However, I did think about her theme song as feel her theme would be the Spider Dance cover that SullyOrchestations has made since I frequently had that song playing from the playlist when I was drawing her. So know you’re not the only one who thought about what she is like or what she does.

I've always thought my character designs are simplistic compared to other artists I see in the exchange as they seem to come up with some rather interesting, beautiful and/or cool character designs. I feel like I’m disguising the designs I do by making a more complex outfit. I can count the exchanges I did on one hand that I felt were my best designs, this one included. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not used to getting praise for my designing, so I appreciate that I’m not the only one who really likes her design.

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