#halart

when redesigning bubble, i'm gonna be real, i didn't have much to go off. her original designs aren't bad, they're just a little boring. i knew i wanted to keep the slightly 'tighter curled' hair (compared to canon sapphire) and the same sort of distribution of colours/shades, but her outfit needed an overhaul. of the three gems in this series i've done so far, bubble has by far had the most iterations of her design.

like halite, bubble was initially redesigned on paper scraps while i was working. her 'original' redesigns looked a lot different to what you see above!

starting with her homeworld design, i kept the affiliation with yellow diamond, and the overskirt shape. the asymmetrical wrap—which is/was an important part of halite's design—was shelved, and will be used elsewhere.

the above designs were initial sketch explorations of her unaffiliated design. the two most important parts of this design that i knew i wanted from the beginning were her pigtails, and being able to see her legs. her pigtails are the foundation of halite's moon buns, so they were non-negotiable. i also needed to keep halite's whole design in mind, as bubble was redesigned after i redesigned her, so i needed to make sure bubble could feasibly be 'half' of halite.

i also wanted her unaffiliated design to look like she was still the same person as before, but able to be herself. as such, i kept the overskirt idea, and accidentally gave her an affinity for waistcoat-like things. the bubble skirt appeared on my second design, and thus so did the nickname bubble.

i didn't like the shapes of the second redesign above, so once again, i took to more sketches.