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Today marks exactly 1 year after we drew the first concept arts and went to rebooting @hauntedhearts-au into a new full comic

So we decided to redraw the two artworks that started it all !

Original - 1 Year Remake

This was us figuring out how to revamp their designs , which over the year changed a ton , starting quite close to original Haunted Hearts , to being more simple , clean , and grounded

our human artworks and hands really improved over the year

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Original - 1 Year Remake

And this scene was exactly kept into final comic , being the first 9 pages . This scene is redrawn to be just like these pages

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Cant express enough how much GBR and Haunted Hearts means to us , to even be able make it a comic at all and completing it in under a year

This is a comfort story to us , and "thank you" letter to our former host as reason why Haunted Hearts ended abruptly in first place is because learned we were a system back in 2020 ,

and ironically only reason why GBR is way it is through and through (art , story , reason , message , etc) is because we're a sys , checking over our/each other's work and all . About 10~ main headmates worked on this mostly with others minor assisting , and through 2 fronting crews and more to come as clean up pages , didnt think we could do this due to declining health and mental state

Personally think of GBR like rainbow , it there and done just like that both in reading and creating , and hope GBR meant something to anyone

Thank you for reading 🐕

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[ system art - personal art ]

been so long since drew ourself let alone headspace , so thought to draw something that recently happened

Note : Havent updated pages yet as need recolor and reupload all them , which may take some time , this just showing our thought process

Spent entire 2 days and many many hours adjusting colors to be more clear

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To go into more details on issues:

as said on page , there was major issues on original BG palette with its Orange blending into Green of Frisk , practically looking like exact same color and shade making it rlly hard to see Frisk

Even though it was intent to make Frisk more blend into sky in this section , it was too much , not thought out , and visually inacessible

Another didnt mention as didnt fit , was that the Blue-Grey at top and Orange were also very similar shades , so in Monochromacy you can barely see sky's gradient

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This all was major oversight as spent least amount of time on Orange Rain section so didnt check it's color accessibility , unlike other sections in comic which we did check it's colors

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Now going over color choice changes:

Specifically Hue changes are very intentional and have purpose

So first we started with dulling and brightening the colors so contrasts more with character's deeper saturated colors and keeping its foggy rain feel

Then with Orange , picking points from existing BG gradient and going from there so that the Orange has a blueish tint

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Going from there , we then adjusted Orange hue into being red while still appearing orange in Full Color vision

To hopefully explain best as can , in Full Color vision , green is considered a cool color while magenta is a warm color

However , in Red-Blind and Green-Blind vision , green is a warm color while magenta is a cool color , red being the dark greyish-brown in between

So in other words , if want make an Orange appear cooler tone and different from Yellow/Green in this , making it Red will give it a cooler tone as its closer to blue as well as Red having a more visual difference compared to Yellow or Green , the desaturated tone it naturally has is also easier to work with

And if you do a specific shade of Pale Red , it'll still be seen as orange in Full Color vision

And as for Grey-Blue for top gradient

It was made be "True Blue" , being nudged more to purple side so blends in better with Orange (red) background

It was also greatly desaturated as it appears too saturated and sharp if not . Also made this color much more brighter while still under White , so that gradient is clear in Monochromacy

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Another thing , in Full Color vision , a Pale True Blue will appear purple , this is why you often might make Blue more towards Cyan if wanting make a light blue

We were able mostly avoid this effect as making this Blue-Purple very very desaturated as well as next to Red-Orange , itll make this Grey-Blue appear more light blue while still having a minor purple tone that gives more depth instead of interfering with effect

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So all of this together , even though it appears as "just brightened and desaturated everything" , tons of things were done to it so that should be much more clear across different colorblindness first and foremost , and this should help with readability across the board

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And heres example of color adjustment for a full page

Old ver:

Updated colors:

So really want to emphasize how important this was , Frisk was completely indistinguishable to background colors before this ,

and now colors and tones across the board now fits how section should feel while still keeping identity as Orange Rain section

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To understand and love colors is to understand that it's human and every eye is important , more important than what you think it should be or what the color wheel / color picker says .

Every color is many things , and whats important is what you see , not your brain's judgement

Anyways , always check your colors and adjust , we use this site

Making art visually accessible doesnt mean need "sacrifice color choice" , and if do , promise itll be worth it for better experience

Ty for reading 🐕 !

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GREAT BRILLIANT RADIANCE AU - 178 pages

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wip - ok reblog

having a ton of fun drawing with dip pen , pretty much everything wanted ballpoint pen be

(used: speedball dip pen , no pencil sketch , book is hand binded by us)

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GREAT BRILLIANT RADIANCE AU - 178 pages

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Major color update for Part 3 (orange rain section) is now complete and uploaded to both ComicFury and Tumblr !

(links will go directly to section)

[ Old - New ]

This was really necessary update as old colors weren't accessible and made it hard to read even in full color vision

So new colors are much lighter and easier on eyes , along with having new color meaning and experience !

Even if had read all of GBR , we recommend taking another read at this section if seen it in its old colors

Thank you 🐕

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Happy pride month 🌈

(note: due to how AU works , all queer art is non-canon to comic , but headcanons of canon , but still about specific AU . yeah)

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GREAT BRILLIANT RADIANCE AU - 178 pages

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