Monday, May 9, 2016

Conflicting Design and Color

Welp, I knew this was going to hit me, but I didn't know it was going to be so hard.

Recently, I've been creating alternate outfits for the 2422 cast, since it didn't make sense that they would always be donning their school uniforms all the time. When working on Marilyn's street casual costume, I've come to realize that I created a design very much like Danielle's clothing. I strongly prefer (want) to have different characters dressed very differently from each other and at the end I finally came up with something that's different from those two, and although the two designs still share some similarities I decided I'll let it pass it.
Next is the coloring. I had an idea in my head as to how Marilyn's street casual apparel would be colored, and it didn't really work out. Color schemes that did work, however already existed with other characters which I wasn't gonna use.

Man, it's annoying for me to see very similar elements in both character, design, and story with both 2422 and "Summer Vacation." They were both created about a couple years apart, but development of the two ran completely parallel with each other, resulting with a good amount of obviously obvious (to me) elements that are shared between the two.

Hopefully I've have more time to work on the character revamps some time soon. We have about three weeks in the semester left, and that's when things are gonna start becoming hectic and busy for me.