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Kuvira Week Day 1: Solace/Torment Sometimes, it’s you versus the world. 

Club Zaofu is owned by Suyin Beifong, head of the Beifong Clan and one of the Big Three controlling Republic City. Kuvira is Suyin’s head bodyguard and lead dancer. She scans the crowd for trouble. There’ll be hell to pay if she finds it. Lin is the blacksheep of the family, a detective who’s trying to bring her sister down. She used to work with a partner until they died mysteriously. Baatar is a bartender and skilled with surgical tools, knowing just the right spot to cut. He assists Kuvira in covert interrogations.

Club Zaofu is owned by Suyin Beifong, head of the Beifong Clan and one of the Big Three controlling Republic City. Lin is the blacksheep of the family, a detective who's trying to bring her sister down. She used to work with a partner until they died mysteriously.

Kuvira’s look is modeled after Gigi Hadid’s Tommy Hilfiger gown at the 2016 Met Gala. I thought the metallic notes were a good fit for her, so I replicated the dress and added the shoulder as a statement piece. Baatar is just, well, dapper. I think he likes to pretend he’s not trying. 

Check the board by the window for some easter eggs.

I used Procreate’s Oriental Brush and a lot of Smudge tool attempting to replicate the style.  Oh and they’re joined by a Registeel, a 3rd gen Pokemon that really gives me mecha vibes. I changed it’s red markings to purple to match the Colossus. 

I’ve been meaning to have a go at pixel art, so what better opportunity than with these two cuties? I loosely based them off of Pokemon trainer sprites, but they really started to have a look of their own. Lesson of the day: translating complicated features to pixel size is hard. But I think they look like themselves! The backdrop is a pixelated screencap of Zaofu (because doing that myself would be god tier and I am not at god tier). Enjoy!

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