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Hoshi-no-Kaabii — A redesign?

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Published: 2016-09-18 09:40:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 3743; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 8
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Description I promised this some months ago. I was working on a redesign of this character, and now I releaseed what I consider the final version.
There are lots of sketches that maybe I will upload in the future if I feel to.

I used Metaknight as inspiration, in fact, Metaknight's design was very simple in Kirby's Adventure, but in the years he got some more details. In a similar way, I tried to add some details (still keeping the overall design of the character simple enough to be Kirby-like) to Adeleine taking inspiration from the old official artworks and from Ado. The paintbrush is completely new, I tought that it would have been nice to give the paintbrush some more personality, since it's a magical paintbrush: the inner part of the star is a crystal and has the same color as Ripple Star's crystal from Kirby 64; the gray part is silver-like and the blue part is plastic-like with a star pattern (the Galaxia sword was a big inspiration for this too). The palette is wooden, and has a yellow border all around; there is a small star (carved in the wood) at the corner close to the hole for the finger.
That little bag is there so she can take or put away the paintbrush, the palette and eventually an easel, or other stuff; it's little but I used some Animal Crossing logic here XD
There is a ribbon on the back of the dress, like in Kirby's Dreamland 3's good ending video (look at Ado in one of the artworks).
Proportions may be adjusted still, and the art style may vary as well.
Especially, her body can be made shorter and even more triangle-shaped if needed, to fit more with the simple character design of the other characters from the Kirby series.
Compared to other characters, Adeleine is a bit shorter than King Dedede and obviously more slim. She's roughly 1.5 times as tall as Kirby.

My primary concerns were:
-Make Adeleine look like a girl: many people confuse her with a boy.
-Make her "less human" and more Kirby-esque.

I hope you like this!

Adeleine and the Kirby franchise's copyrights are owned by HAL and Nintendo.
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Comments: 8

JBX9001 [2016-09-21 04:53:57 +0000 UTC]

Very nice redesign, I like how you wanted to make the paintbrush more unique!  Makes me want to do the same in that regard, but now it'd feel like ripping you off...  Anyways, another great drawing!  I shall be faving this of course!

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Hoshi-no-Kaabii In reply to JBX9001 [2016-09-21 08:11:10 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
You can try doing a redesign of the paintbrush as well if you want, no problem with that, I would love to see more ideas.

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JBX9001 In reply to Hoshi-no-Kaabii [2016-09-23 23:22:00 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!  And cool; I'll add that to the list of stuff I'm drawing!

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MAB-8942 [2016-09-20 01:55:17 +0000 UTC]

This is a really cool redesign you made for her, lots of details.

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Hoshi-no-Kaabii In reply to MAB-8942 [2016-09-20 08:07:47 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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MAB-8942 In reply to Hoshi-no-Kaabii [2016-09-21 02:09:13 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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GSnail [2016-09-20 00:55:32 +0000 UTC]

This is cute! I'm sure that if they brought back Adeline they would redesign her along the lines you mentioned. It's an interesting exercise, making a character more complex.

She reminds me a bit of the floralians and, which seem to be the most human of the recent Kirby characters.

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Hoshi-no-Kaabii In reply to GSnail [2016-09-20 08:23:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I used a lot of other characters as reference and floralians were some of them. Other than Metaknight, I used Chuchu and Burning Leo for the eyes (a bit of Elline too), the floralians (and Waddle Dees) for the shape of the head, Poppy, Susie and Knuckle Joe for proportions, and I tried different stuff for the feet but at the end I went for Kirby-like feet that become a bit pointed on the front tip.
I changed the hair a lot as well, but I'm happy with the one I did in this picture and I think there is no need to change them anymore.

About the colors, I choose them without thinking too much, so probably something better can be done with the color palette (I mean the precise RGB colors).

I did it using Drawpile and a Wacom pen (the cheapest one, noting special), and it was the first time I tried to do a serious project with that program and with the pen, and one of my first drawing using the layers for sketch/color/shading/lineart.
I have little experience with these things but I'd like to improve in the future, I think I'll try doing some other stuff like this soon.
Especially I'm not very happy with the black stroke it's too thick and I don't like how the top of the paintbrush came out.

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