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I really, REALLY hope my hangul is readable. I learned it in high school - it was in a Korean neighborhood (we had more Parks than Munich, the joke went), a sizable chunk of my friends were Korean, and just being able to read it made such a difference. But I haven't tried to hand-write it since then. First time for everything. (I still retain way too much of that information - My sister's boyfriend Mike is Korean, and he remarked to me once that I could pronounce it better than him. I still can't get over that, given how badly I mangle every language I try.)
리 지현 - Lee Ji-Hyeon
유라시아 수달 - Eurasian Otter
팬 시스 ♀ - Pan Cis Female
여자 마사지 사 - Masseuse
색깔 - Color spectrum
I tried to make this look as much like an awful Korean TV poster as I could - chunky title, lots of obnoxious colors that somehow work, and an overall chunky, rugged feel to everything.
Anyway, this is a character I've been playing with for several months. Not exactly a second sona, but an OC. I sort of decided, I'm a giant who's never comfortable with what I am and am sorta anxious about everything. I figured I needed an OC that was my polar opposite - chipper, outgoing, carefree, petite, and was good at all the things I want to be good at - baking, flower-growing, maintaining friendships, deep tissue massage (which still eludes me).
And I've wanted to have an otter character for a while, but never had any character idea playful enough to make an otter. Now I do. (And also, I just wanted to draw those adorable little goblin noses otters have, because I'm getting tired of everyone here drawing otter noses like Zaush does - somewhere between a stock dog nose and a sunglasses case.)
All that said, meet Ji-Hyeon! A chipper, outgoing and go-getting petite masseuse. Has a passion for barrettes of strange and bizarre Seussian flowers, and she poses here with just a sample of her collection. I love the idea of her clipping these to herself... Annoying houseguest, fun buddy for tough times, and infectiously bubbly baker of wonderful cakes, even if she has a bit of a demanding streak and a volatile attention span. She's working on it!
I really, REALLY hope my hangul is readable. I learned it in high school - it was in a Korean neighborhood (we had more Parks than Munich, the joke went), a sizable chunk of my friends were Korean, and just being able to read it made such a difference. But I haven't tried to hand-write it since then. First time for everything. (I still retain way too much of that information - My sister's boyfriend Mike is Korean, and he remarked to me once that I could pronounce it better than him. I still can't get over that, given how badly I mangle every language I try.)
리 지현 - Lee Ji-Hyeon
유라시아 수달 - Eurasian Otter
팬 시스 ♀ - Pan Cis Female
여자 마사지 사 - Masseuse
색깔 - Color spectrum
I tried to make this look as much like an awful Korean TV poster as I could - chunky title, lots of obnoxious colors that somehow work, and an overall chunky, rugged feel to everything.
Anyway, this is a character I've been playing with for several months. Not exactly a second sona, but an OC. I sort of decided, I'm a giant who's never comfortable with what I am and am sorta anxious about everything. I figured I needed an OC that was my polar opposite - chipper, outgoing, carefree, petite, and was good at all the things I want to be good at - baking, flower-growing, maintaining friendships, deep tissue massage (which still eludes me).
And I've wanted to have an otter character for a while, but never had any character idea playful enough to make an otter. Now I do. (And also, I just wanted to draw those adorable little goblin noses otters have, because I'm getting tired of everyone here drawing otter noses like Zaush does - somewhere between a stock dog nose and a sunglasses case.)
All that said, meet Ji-Hyeon! A chipper, outgoing and go-getting petite masseuse. Has a passion for barrettes of strange and bizarre Seussian flowers, and she poses here with just a sample of her collection. I love the idea of her clipping these to herself... Annoying houseguest, fun buddy for tough times, and infectiously bubbly baker of wonderful cakes, even if she has a bit of a demanding streak and a volatile attention span. She's working on it!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Portraits
Species Otter
Size 1202 x 1197px
File Size 1.07 MB
She is really cute, and that overbite And it's so true about the sunglasses-case-nose trademarked by Zaush and copied by so many XD Although other high-caliber artists like Blotch are guilty of that as well, so I guess even artists that are way out of our league aren't immune of adopting a formulaic style. I also have only rarely seen bats on FA with anatomically correct noses, but that's probably because they look silly. Also, that subtle blush is sweet
Two things otters have going for them - sleekness and overbites.
It's a complete crapshoot with bats, no one wants an ugly goblin nose. The otters, they have such subtle anatomies that I think people are scared to do their own thing with them. (I actually have a picture I'm working on with a Flying Fox, I feel you.)
Speaking of which, someone's gotta talk to this fandom about Bambi eyeshadow. Where a character's eyes are surrounded by a large bright patch from the eyebrows down to the cheek, which Milt Kahl perfected in his designs for "Bambi..." It works like a charm in animation, when you need all the help you can get to make the audience read the character's expressions and define the planes of the face without making a character look old. In a still picture, it looks formulaic and sorta stupid and really, really far from the animal. Otters do NOT have it. If I have to surround the eyes with white, I try to integrate them onto the face... If I ever have to draw an otter that isn't her, I intend to give them genuinely ottery thick brows and beady eyes, it looks so lovely. She just looked wrong with them. But I do NOT want my otters to look like Zaush, dig?
Aww, so glad you noticed the blush. I'm still trying to figure out how
Maxi-Rover does this - she's more fearless than me about it by a long shot. I'm too timid, and she's been doing it for years.
You'd get a kick out of this - I visited my old high school this morning (on winter break) to wrap up some loose ends with counselors and whatnot, and (for shits and giggles) showed the corner of this picture on my phone to the woman manning the deserted Korean BBQ place I had lunch. "'Eurasian otter?' You wrote this? You're white, it's good, why?" X3 Best reaction I could have gotten - she could read it, that's the important thing.
It's a complete crapshoot with bats, no one wants an ugly goblin nose. The otters, they have such subtle anatomies that I think people are scared to do their own thing with them. (I actually have a picture I'm working on with a Flying Fox, I feel you.)
Speaking of which, someone's gotta talk to this fandom about Bambi eyeshadow. Where a character's eyes are surrounded by a large bright patch from the eyebrows down to the cheek, which Milt Kahl perfected in his designs for "Bambi..." It works like a charm in animation, when you need all the help you can get to make the audience read the character's expressions and define the planes of the face without making a character look old. In a still picture, it looks formulaic and sorta stupid and really, really far from the animal. Otters do NOT have it. If I have to surround the eyes with white, I try to integrate them onto the face... If I ever have to draw an otter that isn't her, I intend to give them genuinely ottery thick brows and beady eyes, it looks so lovely. She just looked wrong with them. But I do NOT want my otters to look like Zaush, dig?
Aww, so glad you noticed the blush. I'm still trying to figure out how
Maxi-Rover does this - she's more fearless than me about it by a long shot. I'm too timid, and she's been doing it for years.You'd get a kick out of this - I visited my old high school this morning (on winter break) to wrap up some loose ends with counselors and whatnot, and (for shits and giggles) showed the corner of this picture on my phone to the woman manning the deserted Korean BBQ place I had lunch. "'Eurasian otter?' You wrote this? You're white, it's good, why?" X3 Best reaction I could have gotten - she could read it, that's the important thing.
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