Its all ogre now

starting with ragatha!! i've said this before (in my tutorial for drawing her from a year or two back) but i try to make her recognizable by keeping her basic shapes present but modifying them to fit a different body type... liked giving her a wider, softer appearance as it came more naturally to me for drawing and it calls back to her original inspo (raggedy ann) in a way i think is pretty cute <3

and she's black mostly because i liked the idea of twists for her human hairstyle and the rest of the design followed suit! honestly surprised that i haven't seen that more? maybe it's too on the nose?? but i liked the idea of her having similar hair out of circus since it's such a key feature of her in my mind

here's a doodle of my human design because i don't think i've ever made it public? a bit outdated but the basic idea will still hold when/if i update her to current lore (though i don't really enjoy drawing humans in general so sorry she might not show up again </3)

i also changed her dress a bit. there used to be more details but i dialed it back... i think i only kept what i did because the wider chest looked kinda empty without something extra a lot of the changes i made with ragatha were gradual... she was the design that gave me the most trouble at the start so i had to slowly figure out how i wanted to draw her... in some ways she's further from canon than my original take, but in most ways i think i brought her back to canon, just in a way that worked for me, and now i think she's one of my favorites to draw!! here's a lil redraw as a throwback to anyone who has been with me from the start hehe

okay next up, caine, who's got the most "intentional" changes... i just think he could have a bit more going on to make his design as flashy as his personality! i also tried to make him look more "official" like he's trying to present himself as in-charge

he also gets slight changes to body type and proportions... his head/teeth are smaller and a little thinner so i don't have to worry as much about how i fit his eyes in there, and i made his biceps a little beefier to strike a fun contrast with his dainty waist and legs hehehe

anddd jax and pomni who i paired up because this screenshot was cute...

jax is more rabbit-like because i like giving anthro characters more animal characteristics than canon because i'm a furry at heart... he gets big ol feet, big ol ears, and a fuzzy tail. even if he annoys me i might as well make him fun to draw :P also more detailed overalls bc he seems like the kind of guy to always have his hands in his pockets and i had to add more details so that wouldn't look out of place pomni's a bit of an odd case because i actually did have a more unique design for her back in the day but i slowly reverted back to canon... see below! she just has a fun design which is a big part of why i like her so much, and i guess in the end i couldn't really improve much on peak

ribbit is likely due to change whenever they actually appear in canon... wanted just a bit more patterns and animal characteristics to distract from the fact that they are kinda butt naked??? so i took some inspo from red eyed tree frogs to also work that pink into the design a bit more

anddd the rest of the characters i have very little changed for, so i'll let my brief notes speak for themselves