Tighnari redesign!! 🦊

My main inspiration came from this really cool thread on twt! As always, feedback and notes on the design are very very appreciated! Especially if i did something wrong lol.

My 6th sumeru redesign (and number 11) and it's our sleepy girl, Layla 💙🌙! She was DEFINITELY the hardest redesign so far 😅 but was worth it.

Redesign notes:

Two problems with Layla: 1) her outfit was confusing in a lot of places like the skirt and the brown corset. 2) I don't really see any hint of arabic culture or any cultural detail anywhere. So that meant one thing...concept art 🎨😍!

The concept art was focused on playing around with the middle eastern culture while also using some of the orignal elements from Layla's current design. Also, since Layla is sleepy all the time, I thought to try and make her outfit comfortable for her.

Outfit number 2 was the winner 🏆 especially with how beautiful it looked. This dress is based on an outfit from the Yemeni culture (which can be found here for comparison). Also the idea of the dress came from @loojii 's character Shari on the lovely dress she wore and the design gave me an idea add moon and star symbols to the dress (note: the oc Shari rightfully belongs to @loojii )

Iknow Layla is a sword fighter and pants would be more practical but I felt a skirt fit her character more especially with the more graceful fighting style she has.

I did try to use some of the orignal elements to my advantage. For example, the diamond halter was used a belt and we kept the small black skirt, the necklace and shoes too. I did remove some things like the golden claws and brown corset. Mainly because they didn't make sense to me or they didn't fit her character. Also her vision is moved onto her necklace (which i almost forgot to add 😅)

As for the hood, I REALLY tried my hardest to make it work but for some reason I really struggled with it (that might just be a 🎨drawing skill issue from my part) and I decided to remove it. I actually found it later that the hood is based ok a dupatta from south aisan culture. Wish I knew that sooner 😅

As for the physical features, mainly the same with minor changes. I changed a hair to a ponytail because the pigtails feel overused for a lot of characters.

Cyno sticker edits based on the redesign by @pcktknife

Also, why does redesigning this lil shit is so hard (dori) and also wtf hoyo

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More characters will be added once their official models/art are seen. Any suggestions and new art are welcome, send them to this account or reply to the post and I will add them ASAP! (To clarify, I'm counting edits of official art as redesigns too.) This also goes for notifying me about broken links. Additionally, if any artist would like their link removed from this list, please contact me and I will do that no questions asked.

Thank you to everyone who contributed!

This list will (hopefully) be continually updated, so if you're seeing this through a reblog, check the original post

Sorted by character in order of (speculated) release date.

Disclaimer: This redesign is entirely based off of my own perspectives and opinions as a Persian raised in a Zoroastrian household, and do not reflect the opinions of SWANA as a whole. If you have a differing opinion, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment or send me a direct message!

What I think Faruzan’s original design is supposed to be based off of:

This is a Persian stained glass technique, which can be seen in the “stained glass” look of Faruzan’s skirt in her original design, albeit simplified for ease of animation.

And this is what that stained glass pattern looks like in sunlight. Isn’t it beautiful?

Now on to my Redesign…

I decided to incorporate more of the original stained glass type of pattern to create a longer skirt/trousers combination, since this would allow me more space to draw a “stained glass” texture, while also maintaining Genshin Impact’s aesthetic of combining modern and traditional attire to create a unique look.

I kept Faruzan’s blouse the same, since there’s not a whole lot wrong with it (and drawing the skirt took long enough lol!). Also, given the pattern of the Persian-coded characters wearing white, which has some significance to Zoroastrianism, I decided it would be best to keep it the same color palette.

I decided to add a white cap, with a similar floral motif to her skirt, since her blouse somewhat resembled a Sedreh to me, I thought it would be a good idea to incorporate either a Mathabana like Nilou wears, or a white cap. Due to the volume of Faruzan’s hair and the fact that there is at least one character wearing Mathabana, I decided to go with the cap for Faruzan.

I decided to give Faruzan a healthy tan, because her original color palette looks a bit washed out otherwise, although that is just my opinion. I kept the rest of her color palette the same.

My overall opinions on Faruzan:

The good:

I think the explicit representation of Persian or Persian-coded characters is great, and since there is virtually no other mainstream representation, I have to give some credit to HYV for doing so, and going as far as to look into our ancestral belief systems as well.

I think it’s very creative to construct a dress based on architectural techniques, especially stained glass.

The jewelry that Faruzan is wearing is super cute. If someone out there was selling these, I’d probably buy them.

Like others have said, she looks like Hatsune Miku lol.

The Bad:

Like I said earlier, her color palette is a bit washed out, and would benefit from either a darker skin tone, or less green, blue, and grey tones overall.

Despite the creativity in using stained glass to inspire an outfit, the original dress design feels a bit bland, hence my redesign in the first place. It would have been cool to see a stained-glass floral print or something more elaborate than simple diamond shapes, in my opinion.

I didn’t think the bows added anything of value, so I just scrapped them for no reason other than I didn’t feel like drawing them.

Final Takeaways: