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I decided to do up a sort of 'sequel' picture to the one I did up earlier with Isontaro and Itoku considering Robina (right) and Sirah (left) are their wives. Who doesn't love some spicy ladies for 'Palentine's Day'?

Merry Christmas everyone!

For this years theme I decided to go with a more 1920's cartoon style for my holiday piece. It was actually something that my SO suggested. I really love how it turned out, both Robina and Isontaro look great!

I might do some else like this in the future, we'll see. It's been a nice change of pace to do up a different style.

I revamped Robina’s outfit slightly, this is more the version that she wears in the third arc (I might end up making something different for her for the first arc). You can’t really see it because of her overcoat but her bodysuit goes down to her thighs. Like Isontaro I wanted something somewhat practical for her since thinking about it, with her being a heavy magic user she wouldn’t have much need for ungodly armour since her abilities would fill the gaps. I kept things simple for the most part especially if I’m going to be drawing not only Robina’s outfit constantly but everyone else’s too.

Since she’s not the heavy hitter of her and her allies I decided to go with a more lean/muscular physique for her but nothing crazy. I wanted to keep her more realistic so to speak so I funny enough based her physique similar to what you might see someone who does crossfit has.

Here’s what she looks like underneath all of her clothes for anybody who’s curious to what I’m referring to. I will be doing this with all the characters since I think keeping in mind what everyone looks like is key (especially if anyone else eventually draws these guys. Maybe?). 

One thing to note is Robina is the only character out of DIVE who’s able to cast all elements, picture her almost like a ‘red mage’. Some characters are able to be healed by certain elements, but for Robina she merely nulls any damage she would receive. There’s going to be a lot of fun with who can cast what during the course of the story, I have some very unique set ups for some of the characters. I also had to keep in mind with how their elements would affect their physique too (like for someone having say the element of earth/ground would be more beefy/stocky than someone who’s skilled with wind or even electricity).

Robina is one of the few characters that hasn’t gone through a whole lot of changes over the years, the biggest thing I’ve changed for her is her hairstyle but even that was still just her bangs. Plus the addition of her horns, there’s not a whole lot of characters that have horns even if the Demyra are based on demons (hence the general appearance). I don’t feel that I’ll be fiddling around much with her design or any of the other primary protagonists or antagonists for that matter.

Someone over on Twitter asked me if any of the characters from DIVE have any regular jobs or hobbies that they like to indulge in. I decided to do up a cutesy thing of ‘what kind of sports would they enjoy’ so first on the chopping block was Robina and Isontaro. 

I really love these guys and how they’re very much independent but work well as a team. There’s something super fun about that so I went with powerlifting for the two of them - it’s something that I’m passionate about myself (I do powerlifting as a hobby - I mentioned it over on my main blog - @dinosaurchurch) and I hadn’t ever drawn anything related to the sport so why not? It would be cute to see these guys train together - spot one another, rack each other’s weights and whatnot. 

I picture either of them enjoying strength sports as a whole, both being strong in their own rights. I mean they are gods after all so why not test themselves - see how far they can go without their powers. 

I’m late posting these here, but this is what I whipped up to celebrate the holiday season and the start of a new decade. It’s hard to believe that 10 years has flown by so quickly!