#cogbabble

(this is a tag on a reblog of john 1:20)

@swordrogue​ id always intended to censor the eyes on M-- and her nun for a couple reasons. the big one was to mirror the censoring of their pre-rez names and to make john’s stand out more (as both the only ones not censored and because they were originally gonna be the only things in his shots that weren’t desaturated or blue). but also eyes are so, so, so important in this series and we dont actually know what mercy’s originals looked like! im one of those people who gets rly rly anxious about making sure i get the details described in canon right (except when i dont. but when i dont i want to know im ignoring them and not just forgetting them). we know her face shape and hair color but we dont know her eye color and eyes are so important and we dont know!

i dont actually mind drawing eyes (even if i have trouble making em level)! but knowing they werent gonna be shown when i posted it meant i didnt have to spend a million years making them perfect lol

the one big difference between what id originally envisioned and the end result was the final pic. id imagined the light/dark difference being a lot More than it ended up being (id originally planned to paint/shade/whatever you wanna call it these all the way) so cris’ eyes wouldnt have needed a censor bar or scribbling bc her face would have been super in shadow anyway! but that didnt end up happening so that one had to get scratched out too