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[malymin]

made with nex3's grid generator

Blue is the original; tawny is the result of swapping the red and blue color channels in GIMP.

Feel like there was a period where almost gem-like eyes were popular in anime creature design, which also trickled into anime-influenced designs outside Japan. Wanted to vaguely capture that sensibility. I also generally kind of wanted to draw something that was "mascot character like", but still (despite the fantastical elements) looked more like an "animal" than a "toy." Cabbits from Tenchi Muyo, the fox-squirrels from Nausicaa, etc.

Made with Crayola "Pip-Squeaks", except the eyes and the very pale yellow-white areas - I don't remember the brand of those markers, but they're color changing markers of some sort.

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[malymin]

Mokona! And Ryo-Ohki, and a bunch of Gen 1-2 pokemon like Golduck and Persian and Ampharos and Espeon, the "full forms" of Kerberos and Spinel in Cardcaptor Sakura, Arf/Alph and Zafira in Nanoha...

I thought it would be fun to combine the "forehead jewel" and "jewel-like eyes" in such a way that it looks like the animal has three eyes.