#design stuff

graphics on the top row are works I was really proud of in 2023 and bottom row is stuff m proud of in 2026 like the improvement is crazy

well, i would've..... if i wanted her to look like this XD

Personally, this feels more like a Francesca, which is not what I'm really going for 😅

who up horsing their races

someone on twitter said the horse names from Horse Race Tests sound like iterator names and so . I was. inspired. I guess. horse iterator yuri

now whether the Iterators are racing or it's some kinda Iteration Trial idk. shrugs.

Anon asked: Are Wyld and Striker related? They look alike.

Anon asked: Is there a lore reason that Wyld looks like striker?

No worries at all! Okay, guess a little talk about design stuff:

First, here's a very quick sketch-up of Wyld and some of the differences between him and Striker I keep in mind while I draw him.

So, a lot of the reason that Wyld looks like Striker is because they are meant to sorta be mirrors of each other. Lore-wise, you're on the right track! They are partners in crime and childhood best friends (which I go into a lot more into my fic with them). According to Viv, a lot of Striker's inspiration references were classic cowboys, specifically villains like Angel Eyes and Rattlesnake Jake. When designing Wyld, I went back to those, but often looked out for their counterparts. For example, Wyld's Man-with-No-Name to Striker's Angel Eyes. Quite literally, I made him the 'white hat cowboy' to Striker's 'black hat cowboy'.

A lot of other design elements bounce off each other too! Wyld's chap tassels are meant to invoke Striker's jacket's ones. They both have bandanas, but Striker ties his in the back and Wyld does from the front. This sorta calls attention to Wyld being a bit more upfront than Striker, due to tied in the back bandanas usually being used by bandits to disguise their faces. They'd pull it up the rim of their nose.

There's also few subtler things. We know Striker is a hybrid and so is Wyld, but what their mixed with changes. I headcanon that Striker is mixed with some kind of snake, which appeared to be common in Greed. That gives rise to the 'rattlesnake' vibe he's got going on. Wyld has family in Envy, who have very strong, classical 'sea monster' appearance to them. This is why Wyld has a little more dragon-like and crocodilian influences to him, as well as his cooler color tones:

Funny enough, their horses are almost opposite of them. Matchbox, Wyld's horse, is inspired by Kiger Mustangs aka Tiger Striped Mustangs, though I usually call him a Lavastripe Mustang.

I don't always draw the cowboys in color though. I am a big fan of them in Sepia tones X3

But, yeah, again no worries at all! If they look alike, they were kinda meant to. But no, they're not related X3

the two pictures:

the rough mashup:

the final mashup:

Soo have these three lol, sorta "Someone fell down to the underworld and this is what they see first before all else" Vibe? Idk lol just thought it was cute, that and i liked the idea that the perks of being full on entities is that these guys are able to monster-fy themselves so G gets to steal Hungry's whole theme to spite em, that and i thought their curls curling upwards instead of down like a rams looked cool-