#feralsona

So for years I felt like Silver needed a little color to her design, as well as a bit of life/movement to her mane. Originally, I was drawing her pelt with a VERY dark brown and worked on making any sort of light brown markings here and there just to jot down a concept, then I realized I was kinda liking the spiky shapes forming around her eyes, and started thinking of pine trees, so I decided to make Silver a muted medium brown, but with darker pine tree markings.

As for her underbelly, I considered adding some kind of hue to it, and debated on making it warm to tie in with the brown pelt, or try a bluish hue to greatly contrast the brown markings and tie in with the blue eyes. Ultimately, I decided against changing her underbelly too much, as I'd realized she was losing her namesake trait by making it less silver.

As for the eyes, I debated making her eyes a little earthier and easier on the viewers' eyes, until I realized I'd missed making them supernaturally piercing, so I gave her back the cyan eyes with a slight green highlight to reflect IRL me.

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So yeah I'd originally planned to reveal my redesign for Silver on April 27th 2023, the 10-year anniversary of my presence on deviantART. However, that day had fallen around the busiest time of the semester, so I couldn't get to it at all until summer.

his original design from 2023… euhghfhhh