Here we go folks, ringing in a shiny New Year with another exciting contributor announcement!
Today we're rounding out our writing team with double threat @ludi-ling who will also be on art! You'd be a fool not to check out all her breathtaking works on her socials below and follow, like, and reblog! Very honored to have her on this zine!
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Psylocke re-imagined, Kwannon.
One of my first digital character designs was a redesign of Psylocke, I decided to revisit the idea with more experience and more background of who the character is.
I re-imagined her story to change the whole British woman takes Japanese woman's body for years, and to give Kwannon an identity of herself, instead of just being killed of, or villified
If you would like to know my reasoning behind the design, yo can keep reading below
DESIGN BREAKDOWN:
*First, I would like to say that I don't claim that my design is better than any of the other Psylocke designs, this is just my interpretation of the character with the knowledge that I have.
-I wanted to push the butterfly motif harder (I know that's Betsy's motif, but I think both her and Kwannon can embody different aspects of a butterfly, as both of them got their bodies taken).
I implemented elements based on the patterns of butterly wings, from changing the leg stripes to a shape referencing that and adding a pattern to her torso and chestplate
-Also gave her a mask because her identity is supposed to be a secret, a secret identity if you will. The mask was loosely based on japanese oni masks and the wing mimetism of butterflies.
-The mask has a third eye on the forehead to signify her psychic abilities.
-I opted to use a lighter purple instead of black for her main color as pure black contrast in the dark a lot, and I wanted her to be able to sneak around. I added more bits of red as well to break the big chunks of black and purple.
-Im terms of practicality, I wanted to make the suit feel more protective without looking too heavy, so I designed the chest to look more like a chestplate and gave her shoulder armor and bracelets. I also shortened her hair and made it asymmetrical.
-I gave her a belt, so it doesn't feel like she just has a sash ried around her waist (while still keeping the sash), and so she has a place to put her katana's sheath.
Finally I wanted to post the old redesign that I did 3 years ago to compare, idk I loke to think that I've got better (((^_^;)
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Storm
just a quick drawing of one of my favorite characters ever, was fun to stick to a black, white and gold color scheme :)
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