November 27, 2012

Absol gijinka redesigned

First some background information. Absol is one of my absol-ute haha favorite Pokémon and I've been wanting and meaning to do a gijinka (human version) of it since 2010.

Official art of Absol
I drew my first gijinka version of Absol back in the start of 2010. It was basically a kimono style shirt with a fluffy collar, black gloves, a black sash tied in a ribbon at the back and white pants and generic black shoes. The hair was white and short (neck length) and layered with medium long bangs. Red eyes of course. Pretty boring right? Not so interesting although it wasn't really terribly bad either.
At the end of 2010 I redesigned it slightly; the pants, gloves and sash were the same and the shoes were pretty similar too. But I changed the kimono style shirt into a keikogi (with the tie at the chest) but the collar was still fluffy. Also added a black headband and the white hair was slightly past the shoulders and smoother, medium bangs still. I had planned to make this second design for a long time until last week when I started thinking about redesigning my Absol gijinka for the third and hopefully last time because it still felt.. lacking and bland... and just not so interesting.

So today I sat down and redesigned it. I kept some of the earlier elements but instead of black I decided to go with dark blue because I read somewhere long time ago that it's body is actually dark blue but commonly mistaken for black by fans. I also added some details and stuff and I must say I'm very pleased with this new design. Now it certainly has some attitude and looks much more interesting than before. I won't show how it looks surprise surprise~! but I really want to cosplay it next year, if possible. Masamune will take a fair chunk of next year to complete. If I start working on it I will post the progress here and you all can guess what the final product will look like while I work ~

7 comments:

  1. This cosplay is something I absol-utely want to see ! C: Hopefully you can do this cosplay too (but-tman Masamune first of course xD)~<3

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    1. Hahah yay! I hope I can do Absol next year after Masamune! 8D

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  2. Of course, because you pretty much live with me lol. XD

    I agree. We need to do Absol and Grovyle gijinkas together soon ~

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  3. Well eh jag ser inget svart på den bilden du visar tro aldrig jag har sett något svart på Absol innan inte på kroppen.
    Kan minnas fett fel på att XD
    Men skall blir spännande att ser var du hittar på med att senarte =D Eh... Tänkte säga att jag med vill göra en Gijinka men jag håller på men en typ nästan. XD

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    1. Det är för att på de officiella bilden är den mörkblå.. vet inte riktigt hur jag fått för mig att det blåa på kroppen var svart. XD

      Gör en! Det är skitkul att designa gijinkas!

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  4. Hohooo this sounds interesting! You made me curious, I'll look forward to see it ~

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