“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”— Lemony Snicket; The Beatrice Letters
While taking a nap today I dreamt there was a hazard sign called “never found” which was used to indicate a location where people disappeared never to be seen again
it looked like this
The imagery and vibes of this were so visceral I had to do art about it
(Grayscale version under cut)
A good trope: confident characters getting flustered by their love interest
httyd 1’s design for toothless was the best one IMO . there is just something so Creature about it that is missing from the second movie onward
this was b4 they changed his face to be blockier, have bigger brows. they made him more traditionally cute, and exaggerated his expressions. it’s not a bad thing, but something that isn’t as appealing to me personally. to me He started looking less n less Animal and more Human , n i feel like something was lost there
this is the best comparison i have . they r both the same emotion but the first movie’s design for toothless is way more effective in conveying it. the hostility is literally tangible in the left image. but in the right one you can still tell that he’s angry, but it feels less visceral , less animalistic . too anthropomorphized to be as intimidating yknow !!
same opinion with these !! one feels like a dragon and the other is more like a human
THIS TOO!!! the stripes were so lovely. totally unnecessary to remove them !!
brightened some images of him so the stripes are easier to see. i’m sad that they’re gone, they were super cool!
akagami no shirayukihime | season one + obi
↳ for @peskyfirefly <3 happy birthday mishmish!
btw you guys do realize that when I say that Leon’s hair is naturally mahogany brown canonically, I’m actually basing that on something, right?
This is the oldest piece of concept art of RE2 Leon that exists/that we have access to:
His character design had to be changed because, when they rendered him up in-engine, he looked too much like Chris because of the limitations of the PSX. RE2 also came out on N64, so Capcom couldn’t push the fidelity of the game any higher than what it came out as, because it needed to fit on a cartridge.
Leon’s character design went through a few different changes after that, but this is his final character design, along with his high-fidelity character model:
I say that Leon’s natural hair color is brown because it actually literally is, in a very dictionary definition sense of the words.
From the moment of his conception, Leon’s hair was so dark that his character model could’ve been confused with Chris’s, and it stayed that way throughout the redesign process. In a very literal sense, Leon was “born” with mahogany brown hair.
His character design has changed throughout the years as technology has become more sophisticated and he, as a character, got older – but regardless of what shade of blonde or light brown he ran with for a single title, his character design always inevitably goes back to him having mahogany brown hair.
Because that’s his natural color. Anything else is a deviation/experiment.
I really don’t know where this whole “Leon is naturally blonde” thing came from, because it is factually and canonically untrue.