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[WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

on: March 16, 2011, 03:22:19 pm
This is for the Weekly Challenge over at Pixel Joint. (Still very rough)



I tried to fit the bottom eyelashes into the frames of the glasses, but I think it looks too busy for such a small space... C&C please?
If I have time, I plan to animate the tail swishing back and forth. :)

Yes, I know her boobs are huge.

EDIT: Agh! I just realized her eye and hair coloring are exactly like Blair's from Soul Eater. Gotta change that.
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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #1 on: March 17, 2011, 05:00:39 am
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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #2 on: March 17, 2011, 05:10:07 am
Has much less pop from the bg. Blue hair and blue bg blend too much now. If you could spare one more color for a brighter hair highlight it would help a lot, if you're married to the blue hair and bg. Not sure why she's topless . . .

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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #3 on: March 17, 2011, 05:26:20 am
Do you have any specific palette suggestions? The color limit for the challenge is 13, so I'm maxed out...

Does she need a reason to be topless? I'm playing off the "sexy catgirl" anime cliche.
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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #4 on: March 17, 2011, 03:51:01 pm
White looks good for hair highlight with the colours you already have.
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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #5 on: March 18, 2011, 08:01:49 pm
I like it, but if she's meant to be a grandmother, don't you think you should give her more wrinkles and make her hair grey? Not to mention how ridiculously perky her breasts look.

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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #6 on: March 18, 2011, 08:40:45 pm
Grandmother?! whut

Palette sujjerstuns - no I don't. Just contrast and that which makes *POP*. It's a tiny portrait. Make it jump out at us. A little creative texturing in the bg would be great. BG seems to serve no purpose. Put it to work.

She needs AA on outer and some inner edges.

Could you get rid of the tense area between her and the left side? That strip of visible bg is distracting.

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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #7 on: March 18, 2011, 08:50:01 pm
Good emphasis on the eyes and glasses, and I like the hairstyle of the newer image more than the first one.

Re-use the darkest hair color for the glasses in order to free up a color.  They are both close enough to black compared to the surrounding pixels to work as a single shade.  Strongly increasing the saturation on the mid-blue hair colors will separate the hair from the background. 

Maybe try widening the base of nose a bit.  I know anime style noses are supposed to be small, but I think a little bigger would be ok.  Like, 4 pixels of brown across and then another two on the left, one pixel higher.  With a bit of shadow like you already use you can suggest a triangular nose tip, reinforcing the cat face idea.

The base of the mouth is a bit horizontal.  This combined with the straight vertical of the nose highlight makes the nose/mouth combo out of alignment with the slight tilt of the head, I think.

The torso has quite a bit of form (boobs and collarbones) but the face is really rather flat.  It is inconsistent.  The edit below also swaps the hues of the pink and mid-brown (while keeping their approximate lightness) to make the face really pop, but it only emphasizes that the face is flat, so maybe ignore the hue swap.

Honestly, the boobs don't add anything.  You could crop it at the collar line and it would look just as good.

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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #8 on: March 19, 2011, 12:45:10 pm
Tourist - Thanks a lot for the in-depth post! That was some really helpful feedback. :)

Mathias - Thanks. I'll try to do something cool with the background if I have time. AA is on the way, I was just laying out the shapes.

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Re: [WIP] Hipster Catgirl (partial nudity)

Reply #9 on: March 20, 2011, 07:41:44 pm
Done! :3