{"id":24722,"date":"2024-02-23T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T21:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24722"},"modified":"2024-01-12T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:46:14","slug":"wonky-star-possessed-yim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2024\/02\/23\/wonky-star-possessed-yim\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonky Star-Possessed Yim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fae-Dragons_20231223202106.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fae-Dragons_20231223202106.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fae-Dragons_20231223202106-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fae-Dragons_20231223202106-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This started as a page of concepts for my character Yim when they get possessed by a very powerful star-themed Fae-Dragon. I had the general outfit mapped out and I think I could push the design more, make everything more eldritch and godlike. I also wondered if I should give Yim&#8217;s new form horns instead of a halo of stars. So far, I think horns would be harder to draw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My real character design breakthrough with this page was Yim&#8217;s hair. I made their hairstyle side-parted jumbo braids with an undercut. I watched a video explaining how to achieve that hairstyle, and I think I stylized it rather well. There&#8217;s a lot of great reference images online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from that, I also added some character doodles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This started as a page of concepts for my character Yim when they get possessed by a very powerful star-themed Fae-Dragon. I had the general outfit mapped out and I think I could push the design more, make everything more eldritch and godlike. I also wondered if I should give Yim&#8217;s new form horns instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2248,"featured_media":24724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24725,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722\/revisions\/24725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}