Sorry For Rambling - Blog Posts

So I have a character design Dilemma

“well you don’t LOOK very sorry” I mean. I Was. but now that you’ve said that I guess you’re right, I’m not ^_^

Fat Knuckles is an inspired design choice. Completely fitting. Boy's supposed to be a bruiser, he should either look stacked or like he could knock over a house if he ran into it fast enough, and making him fat a way to satisfy that in a way thats both surprising and makes complete sense. Also the way you draw him makes him look awesome. A+ no notes.

ahh thank you!! i'm glad you appreciate my take! i make him fat because i portray him with a power lifter's body type! a regular body builder will just have a lot of muscle mass and less fat percent - it's often just for show and it isn't very sustainable. power lifters are built to .. well, lift a lot of weight! they have a higher fat percentage and are often a lot physically stronger than bodybuilders.

here's an example pic from this post on quora

for knuckles, i imagine him as being able to not only throw a devastating punch but be able to lift a lot of weight over his head too. a shredded look wouldn't make much sense for that, especially since he lives on an island and doesn't have gym equipment or anything. i feel like he'd be fatter looking, but he's not overweight per-say. he's just very strong - and naturally so!

heres a pic i drew earlier this year. you can kinda see what im going for :D altho these days i draw him even bigger lol

another factor for him is his age! i draw/portray him as being in his 30s so he's kinda softer now. that period of time in his life where he was able to evade the gut is long gone. you'll notice that if i ever draw knuckles at a younger point in his life, he isnt fat. being bighuge is a more recent thing for him as a result of him hitting later maturity

okay! @whitepearl and @plateapus, here's Mav! He's a wizard :D (more info about him under the cut)

so I don't know a lot about how wizards work in this world but I think his magic would specialize in music and summoning (mostly inanimate objects like weapons) a little backstory on him: he doesn't speak to most of his family, and his childhood best friend, Aermi, has some sort of magical illness and can't go out a lot so he's trying to find a way to heal her. I think maybe she could be shimerian although I'm not sure on wizards/shimerian relations and contact but if she was I was thinking that little red thingy on his belt could be like a feather or braided fur that reminded him of her :D since he doesn't talk to a lot of people he's really bad at conversation and opening up to people but he does try (and fail) to be friendly there's probably other things I forgot

sometimes i feel really stuck on how to characterise characters like Night and other starclan cats who have been dead for so long because i cant really comprehend how exactly that would change you. fading isnt a thing in this universe. youve been dead for centuries. tiny little things in life havent been relevant for that long because youve forgotten what being alive was.

while i dont characterise my starclan as god-like figures the oldest of them certainly aren't just little cats. WHAT ARE THEY??

dude I wish I had friends :( like I was fine with being alone at first but now it's just killing me