Ok, with most of the main designs done (I still have one group left to do, but they're new, so I prioritised these), I wanted to share some redraws of my designs along with why I changed each characters designs.
Harbinger Hotel AU Designs Redrawn
These three are the ones I changed the least, mainly either proportions or a couple of colours. For ST. Peter, I changed his wing colour and halo for lore reasons. I'll get into this in a different post going over the hierarchy, but to put it simply, he's an archangel in my AU, and all archangels have unique halos and golden wings. For Niffty, I changed the colour of her casual dress and her skin; this one is a bit more complex. The reason I changed her design is that in my AU, if Lucifer were human, he'd be Chinese, and I thought that having two of the three east asian characters (Sir Pentious is wasian in my AU cause that's an HC I saw and loved), having porcelain white skin would be bad, and since Niffty wasn't originally designed with white skin or an inspiration like porcalain dolls in mind, changing her skin tone seemed reasonable to me. If someone asks me why I made this change to Lucifer, I will answer, but my reasoning is too long to put in this post about changed designs, so I'll leave it here.
For Valentino, his neck was too long, and I forgot to add his glasses the first time. That's it, after those two long reasons for the slight changes to the other two, I just find this funny.
For both, I changed a lot because I wasn't really happy with the original designs I did for them. Charlie's main changes are her hair, her horns, her eyes and her second outfits. I wanted her eyes to feel a bit unsettling, so I made them bigger, and they appear to have no pupil. Her second outfit also takes more from emo fashion cause I've said it once, and I'll say it again, the only thing Charlie grew out of was the teenage angst. I changed her hair because I felt like I was just being lazy the first time, so I looked up hairstyles black women do for inspiration. This is why I put Charlie's hair by itself cause I am so proud of her hair design, and I was not going to let it be hidden by the rest of her design.
For Vaggie, I changed her body type because I want to show that, while Vaggie has more development to go through, she has already progressed and healed a lot from being an exorcist, and one of my favourite tropes is a character gaining weight to show them healing. I changed her hair because the previous one didn't really fit. I also took inspiration from her pride merch design for her work outfit, and I took more inspiration from pirate attire for her casual outfit. I also gave her a moth sinner digues.
I gave Alastor his fuck ass bob back while trying to keep his hair texture. I also gave him more red and completely removed the grey from his design. I originally designed Alastor when I was consuming other redesigns, and so many people made him grey or removed the red, but honestly? The red is a part of his character, so is the fuck ass bob, so I gave them back.
I was just...not happy with my original Pentious design, it was just so flat. So I completely redid it. I'm a lot happier with this design.
Cherri wasn't originally going to give Cherri a redraw since I was rather happy with her design, but then I listened to the song Viper by Derivakat and thought "I need to make her green". So I did. I wanted to lean into the idea of her wanting to be an Overlord, so her first design is more Overlord-esque in my opinion and the second one...just look closely and you'll why I changed it and guess when it shows up.
Like Sir Pentious, her design felt flat to me. I also wanted to incorporate white as her main colour because I changed Valentino's colour to purple because of his season, so why not do the same with Velvette? I also changed her symbol from hearts to skulls because I think she deserves her own icon, Vox has electricity, Valentino has hearts, so why not give Velvette skulls? I changed her body too; she's gone from a fashion design doll to a plastic doll.
My original Sera design was boring; that's it. I changed basically nothing, and the more I looked at it, the more bland it felt. So with this one, I decided to look at other Sera designs and... why do so many of them make her look like Lilith? Anyway, I basically changed everything, and I'm so much happier with this design.
I will say, Lute's original uniform design is the basic exorcist uniform design; this new design is specifically a lieutenant's uniform. The wings on the side of her head are also consistent with being an exorcist angel. As for her hair...I didn't like her original hair, it needed more to it.
Anyway, that's it for the Redraws. I'm so happy to have the cast done with. I will likely move on to Helluva Comedy designs now, but I am so glad I committed to this. This has been such a fun experience and I feel like my art has really improved.
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