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Lyta's Birthday Suit

Sneaky Preview - I'm trying a scheduled post for this on DA; I'll be out of the country on my birthday, so it's ready well in advance. 

I did Clarissa last year and Miyuki the year before, so it makes sense to have Lyta do this year's birthday announcement - and really the only reason these pics exist is because DA's birthday notifications are terrible, and I missed having everyone wish me a happy birthday.

Originally I was going to have Miyuki (who's offscreen somewhere) tel...

Valentine's Day Ninja - All Versions

Ed. 2/16 - added a nude version with Clarissa joining in. Because if Miyuki is going to take her clothes off on Valentine's Day, Clarissa's there! 

Not exactly all the possible versions, that would be a nit nuts. Also, I'm planning one more. These will mostly go up on DA one at a time, but some won't; anyway, they are all here now, so you don't have to wait.

Happy Valentine's day!

-D

Valentine's Day Ninja - the Process

WIPs of Miyuki's Valentine's Day pinup - sketch (the loosest of sketches), lines, colors, and shadows.

Enjoy,

-D 

Secret Ninja Society Ski Vacation

Upd. 3/14 - Just want to check if there are any other suggestions for this month - I like the suggestion we've got here a lot, but I do want to give you all a fair chance if you have something else to throw in the ring. If nothing else comes in by Saturday we'll go with Kiana's nude St. Patrick's Day (and obviously no poll if there's only one option).

What do you want to see for February? Keep in mind February and March are going to count as a single month, so you'll probably s...

Quick Update, Feb - March

Hi guys, quick update:

The rest of the holiday pics are coming up shortly, remember if you were here and December, which you pretty much all were, and didn't request one, which a number of you didn't, you still can.

Kiana's NYE adventure is coming up for the Ninja society tier, (starting on the weekend) - I'll pick a good one of the sequence for everyone, since everyone had a hand in the voting.

February is more or less normal, but I'm leavin...

New Character(s)!

Here she is!

Kiana Noelani Kahananui

Age 22

From Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i, Kiana now a bartender in San Francisco. Her dream in life, however, is to become a fitness influencer. 

Rumors abound that she has some family connection with a Hawaiian pineapple fortune; indeed she has much pricier taste in clothing than a bartender can normally afford, and often signs notes to her friends with a cute cartoon pineapple.

Shown here in a sparkly Moda Cost...

Let's Create a Charater Part 13: Fashion Sense

Should be the last one - how does she dress?

Keep in mind - for her job I'm going to go with Bartender who is aspiring to be a fitness influencer.

I don't really follow women's fashion trends in an intellectual way, I just observe them, so I know what girls are wearing but I only have a vague sense of what anything's called, so let me explain. If I'm wrong in what things mean I'm probably going to keep being wrong.

Overall her look should have some Hawaiian ...

Let's create a Character 12: Small Details

Tattoos are traditional in Polynesian cultures (it's a Tahitian word after all) and could be very extensive, often covering the whole body. In this case, though, the tattoo would be a thin band with a Polynesian geometric pattern - something small and subtle so I can replicate it easily. I googled this one, but I'd actually draw one if we did it for real, but at any rate not more prominent than this:

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Let's Create a Character 11b: What does she do for a living?

Her job will help us determine her personality in a way, although her personality will kind of build organically with her appearances. We know that she is friendly and a good person, or Miyuki wouldn't want to be friends with her (Miyuki may be a bad judge of when not to take her clothes off, but she's pretty good at telling who's a good person).

I changed some of the suggestions a bit, here are my thoughts/considerations for you:

Art Historian - I upgraded her fr...

Let's Create a Character 11a: What does she do for a living?

Taking suggestions on this one. She should be the same age as the other girls I think - about 22, so just out of college and getting started on a career. 

Since she's not a secret badass jobs like "FBI Hostage Rescue Operator" or "Pro Kickboxer, but there are also nunchucks" really don't fit.

Our big industries here are tech, legal, finance, and tourism, but none of those seem terribly interesting from a narrative point of view.

Let's Create a Character Part 10: What's her Name?

Our character needs a name! Let this naked picture help you decide.

Names are a big decision, because a character's name will follow them around, so it has to be something you don't mind hearing in your internal monologue. But it also has to suit their personality and appearance, and has to sound like a name someone would actually have. This last one isn't a rule everyone follows - looking at ...

Let's Create a Character Part 9: Hair Color

I created the variations by shifting hues and saturations around in Photoshop to save time. So keep in mind the brown and purple will have brighter highlights. So a bit closer to Lyta and Miyuki's hair colors, maybe.

Since the only other person of Hawaiian descent we've seen is Miyuki, giving the new character purple hair opens up the possibility that, in universe, purple...

Let's Create a Character Part 8: Eye Color

I think she should have dark eyes, blue and green wouldn't look right, I don't think. Honestly split on this one, brown eyes have a girl next door quality, purple is interesting and mysterious though.

Considerations: Hair color. Here eyes are right by her hair, so the combination matters. I'm going to post the hair color poll in a second - in it she has brown eyes so you'll have to imagine to ...

Let's Create a Character Part 7 - Eyes

Sorry to throw all these polls out at once, I'm trying to get to the colors and we need lines done first.

I have looked at lots of photos of Polynesian women since we started on this and there's a great deal of variation in eye shape, so I wouldn't say either is more realistic than the other, really just an aesthetic choice at this point (I've been assuming she's Polynesian, there are other PI...

Let's Create a Character Pt. 6 - Refining Her Hairstyle

Fine tuning at the length of her hair.

Considerations: The curve of the small of a woman's back has a certain attractiveness to it, which long hair covers. I do like the longer looks though.

I'm pretty happy with the wavy hair for her, but if you really, really want to explore other styles let me know. I'm not sure what else we can do here though, giving her bangs or straight hair is goi...

Let's Create a Character Part 5: Skin tone

The color codes are for the base skin color (the color of the text below each sample). I've added highlights and shadows because the color on it's own doesn't tell you much.

In general I try to reuse skin tones on different characters to keep things simple at my end, but it's not absolutely necessary.

My thoughts on this: 

Miyuki's skin tone is really too light, so I have not i...

Let's Create a New Character Part 4 - Hair Length

Not the final style choices, just narrowing the length down first.

Once again an aesthetic choice, but there are considerations: 

-Hairstyle is a cue to personality; you may be able to see it happening a little here. We'll get to personality later, but if you have an opinion on the tomboy vs girly scale this will play into it (although you can have a tomboy with long hair,  she...

Let's Create a Character Pt. 3 - Body Type

A Very Important Question. 

So yes it's basically boob shape - her hips are always shoulder width because that looks best, but the perky boobs take up less space and so make the torso appear longer and thinner.

I'm going to give the Roots poll some more time still, but I figured I'd launch this one since all women can have all kinds of boobs - If you prefer to wait a few days to see...