We don’t have a title for this new segment yet, but as Ozzie and I have been doing livestreams for a while now (thanks to everyone who chimes in, whether you’re active in chat or not!), we wanted to show our redesigns on the blog. I started out doing streams solo, so this and the next few posts will be just on my process.
One of the first redraws I did on stream was Caitlyn from League of Legends. I read her backstory blurb, and she’s apparently a sheriff, though she doesn’t have a badge or… wear a uniform? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Guess she’s too Strong and Independent™ for that. My redesign was basically to give her actual clothes an officer of the law in a technology-based steampunk city might wear (and a badge!). This was also the stream that started the Poofy Pants tradition of BABD streams.
Poofy Pants: For Any Occasion ~
For people interested in seeing more redraws, check out our redraw and redesign tags, which is mostly filled with fan submissions at the moment, and the Repair Her Armor blog, though it has been on hiatus for a while.
-Icy
astoralexander submitted:
Hi. I hope you don’t mind me sharing my own work. I tried to make these armors as realistic/functional as my minimal knowledge on the subject allowed me to.
Of course we don’t mind! And I love both of these pieces very much.
I’m happy to see Ciri dressed in appropriate armor instead of a shirt that’s unbuttoned right between the boobs (even when they go to a cold place and she wears a fur cloak), and the armor design itself is very nice. [Link to original post with close-ups!] I like that you can see the layering in the gaps. It’s a bit too symmetrical for me, but that’s more of a personal preference than anything.
As for the second piece, that could practically be used as a poster to recruit monster-slayers in a fantasy universe! It’s quite awe-inspiring, and I love your entire line of Classic Arcade Girls.
Thanks for the submission, and keep doing great work!
-Icy
I fucking love Monster Hunter World but this fucking infuriates me
MH have ALWAYS had a sexist issue with how they treat their female armor design, and World hasn’t gotten rid of this problem completely
Oh yeah and that fantasy stripper armor is supposed to be fire resistant
Thankfully a lot of their other female armor designs look really good
*Heavy sigh* Seems like World continues (if not downgrades even more) Monster Hunter’s inconsistency in gender-equal design.
See, this is why we refuse giving credit to costumes in games like MH and Guild Wars 2. Just because the double standard is occasionally avoided, it doesn’t excuse all the rest of generic boob/belly/thigh/butt cutouts that female armor gets and male doesn’t.
Also, this particular one? PAAANK, because how else could we affirm this is supposed to be female character? It’s not like pants were taken away from her already and she runs around in a literal bra and nothing more on her upper torso. Nope, not female-coded enough; needs pink.
~Ozzie
He’s a dancer, so… ?
My other edits:
Takumi | Berkut | Shigure | Ryoma | Spring Xander | Arvis
@clarissadixonsart answering the important question: What if Fire Emblem Heroes had the same priorities for male character designs as they have for female ones?
Original design, for the record:
Quality redo, @clarissadixonsart! Thank you for making it and all the other ones! We’ll probably revisit a few some other Fridays 🙂
~Ozzie
Now he can show off his beautiful… legs! How empowering~ ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o) ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o)
-Icy
president–felix-mendelssohn submitted:
Giving
a cactus far more water than is needed can result in complications such
as root rot, loss of clothing, squished breasts, and vacuum-sealed
pants.(Seeing as someone just submitted Flower Knight Girl art,
thought I’d submit some too. Poor Cactus deserves much better than
this.)Always remember to care for your cacti, folks ):
Public service announcement: skimpy highlevelitis can be contracted by anyone, including plant gijinka!
Without herd immunity, the sexsellius germ spreads uncontrollably.
Don’t confuse a disease for creative freedom. Inoculate your female warrior characters, regardless their species, with well-designed costumes today, for the better tomorrow.
~Ozzie
Dragon Spear seems to be a new addition to the genre of generic-ass pseudo anime mobile games convinced that putting lots of boobs in them will sell better.
So far its reach is limited to a couple countries in East and South Asia as well as Oceania. Wonder how far it’ll expand before the inevitable flop…
Let’s take a look at the full in-game screenshot this bingo comes from:
(ಠ_ಠ)
(╯ಠ_ಠ)╯︵ ┻━┻
~Ozzie
You mock this game, Ozzie, but look at all the cool diverse and original classes it has to offer!
They seem to have taken artistic direction ideas from Dragon’s Crown…
Did I mention the Sorceress’ breasts move during her animations? That’s how you know this is a Serious Action Game.
-Icy