Female
Cheerful, Enthusiastic
North
BAI HU
Male
Vivacious, Precipitance
East
XUAN WU
Female (child)
Clam, Insidious
South
Thoughts:
I didn't expect this will be this hard for me to design clothes. Maybe because it is about ancient Asian and I don't have a lot of knowledge about it. I am not so into traditional clothes design actually. The first time I attempt to draw traditional clothes was last year 503 and it was awful. The reason why I decided to do an ancient traditional theme is I want to study and do better than last year. I started out collecting tons of image references, finding some interesting shapes and layout. With enough knowledge and idea then I can finally design my own. It was hard.
I also tried to show my character's personality by clothes designs. For Zhu Que I mostly gave her long dress, because I want to show that she is noble and charming. Also because I designed her dealing damage with her abilities flame attacks at a distance which mean she don't need to be flexible. For Bai Hu, the white tiger is the king of the beasts in Chinese culture, I want to show that he is strong, unruly, That is why I design he exposing his body to show his self-assertion. Designing Xuan Wu was fun. The tortoise usually has a long life, but I just want her to looks like the youngest among them. The snake usually means evil in many cultures but I just want her to look like an innocent girl so I drew her in short cute dress and cute hair. Maybe I was a bit extreme... The last one Qing long, Chinese dragon in my mind they are arrogant and don't like to talk a lot. So I drew him in a long robe.
Overall I think I did ok. I can not say I love the process of designing it but it was a good experience for me. I felt accomplished after I created mostly 6 design for each character.
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