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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]

If you have photoshop, GIMP, or a similar image editing program, you can get some really striking results by taking an image with large amounts of blue and swapping the RB color channels. Cyan becomes yellow, deep blue becomes red, and the colors in between become various shades of orange and brown; the inverse also occurs.

It's my favorite way to do "palette swaps" for scanned traditional artwork.