| Siro says:
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| *Okay, so far this is a very interesting analysis of the designs you chose and how you made them your own. The part about them initially being very Problem Sleuth but blossoming into their own style is very interesting.
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| *I always like seeing how art evolves.
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| Loonar says:
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| *thank you
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| *I haven't uploaded my newer stuff
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| Siro says:
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| *I look forward to a point when you do
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| Loonar says:
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| *I'll see if I have any on my twitpic
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| Siro says:
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| *I like seeing how the faces evolved too and offered more personality
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| Loonar says:
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| *everyone has different eyes now
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| *it was really difficult actually to come up with a good facial expression for Pandamonium
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| *because of how I've changed her eyes
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| *I have a whole page of terrible facial expressions
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| Siro says:
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| *Hahaha. Yeah, fiddling around and getting something you really like can be so tricky.
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| *I like the bios a lot.
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| *Especially Lucy and Matt's
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| *They seem very interesting
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| Loonar says:
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| *Matt is very interested in his character
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| *which is great and difficult at the same time
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| *cos there's a point where you have to go 'NO YOU HAVE A TRILBY. HATS ARE COOL.'
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| *but he really likes the final design for his character which I'm really glad about
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| Siro says:
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| *Haha, that can be tricky, people being toooo interested in someone based on them.
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| *It's a very classy design.
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| Loonar says:
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| *I'm just glad we agree on it
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| *Lucy didn't have much interest with hers cos she stopped hanging around with us as much
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| *but I think she'd be alright with her character
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| *my main worry with the character designs is like
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| *three of the ladies
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| *myself included
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| *are generally more busty but also not very thin
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| *whereas Lucy is thin but also a little less busty?
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| *and it's that where it gets tricky
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| Siro says:
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| *Ahh, so is communicating this in the art tricky?
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| Loonar says:
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| *and you think 'Are they going to be alright with this design?'
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| *yeah
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| *like you don't want to point it out
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| Siro says:
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| *Ahh yeah, because you want to visualize this but you don't want them to be offended
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| Loonar says:
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| *but you do want to show that the characters have different builds
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| Siro says:
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| *Since no one wants to be like ''Hey you have a flat chest so that's why you look like this''
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| *Indeed!
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| Loonar says:
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| *yeah!
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| Siro says:
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| *So that's tough, making it unique but not making it insulting.
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| Loonar says:
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| *yeah
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| *but
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| *with the line up I did
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| *I think it worked out okay
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| *but again it comes with like
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| *the two thin characters are on the 'Evil' side
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| *even though they all work together
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| *so then you get this kind of metatextual I guess part where it's like 'What if people think you're saying that thin = bad??'
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| *whereas it's more just that's where everyone decided to be
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| Siro says:
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| *Ahhh, yeah, because people really, really read into things.
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| *Exactly.
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| *These things just sort of happen.
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| *It's not a commentary, it's just how the designs worked.
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| Loonar says:
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| *yeah
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| *I mean
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| *they could be worked into a narrative
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| *but I don't see a point to it?
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| *Like, if it came to anything
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| Siro says:
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| *It just seems like an odd thing to make into a big point, yeah.
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| Loonar says:
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| *there would be more of an 'explanation' towards the three of us being larger
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| *which could be any number of things
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| *but towards thinner characters, people would tend to go 'that's how they are'
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| *but you can't just have a fat character : /
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| *like thin is default?
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| Siro says:
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| *I hate that, people always question why someone's bigger in a story, like what's the point of that, when really, it should just be ''Because different people look differently''
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| *It isn't a matter of THEY'RE FAT BECAUSE....
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| Loonar says:
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| *yeah
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| *I mean
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| Siro says:
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| *Or you get into really bad stuff like ''Why is this character black''
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| Loonar says:
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| *if anything
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| *you could say it's because we all have depression
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| *oh that's another layer
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| *it's like
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| *all of my characters are white
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| *because
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| *all my friends are white
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| Siro says:
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| *Ooooh yeah that's another big thing people latch onto
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| *There are always people who work sooo hard to find unflattering subtext in stories
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| *and it's unfortunate because it's just how these things work out
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| *You based it on your friends soooo...
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| Loonar says:
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| *See, there is a point.
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| *That there aren't enough non-white non-stereotypical characters in comics
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| *and I agree with that
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| *but
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| *I am totally not the one that should be writing about that
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| *mainly because I'm white, and practically everyone I know is white too.
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| Siro says:
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| *Yeah, there's definitely truth to it in some stories, just not here.
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| Loonar says:
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| *How can I write a character whose experiences socially are different to mine? In terms of privilidge and prejudice and such. |
