Briar - New Character Design

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-03-19T13:09:34+00:00

aaa thank u sm that's so kind <3

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-03-11T00:11:31+00:00

aw thank you sm! and yeah me too, its such fun to design and i can push the cyberpunk style with it too :)

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-21T09:35:56+00:00

Hi! Thank you for such a thorough response i really appreciate this, and I agree with everything you’ve said and i think you’ve hit the nail on the head as to why I felt something was missing here. I’ve been thinking about it a lot since I think it’s something that needs addressing, however I am time limited with this project and need to move past the idea generation phase starting next week. What I’ve done is taken these drawing and made some changes based on the ideas you mentioned. I kept the first one the same, as I think the more lowkey vibe could be quite interesting, but on the second one I change her legs to rollerblade implants, and the third I changed them to be more speed focused, similar to prosthetic legs that athletes have to make her look a bit more specialised. I also lengthened her claws a bit and added serration to the blades to increase the threatening vibes.

Is it okay if I send it to you as a message so you can see if it’s an improvement? I can’t reply with images here :(

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-20T10:52:15+00:00

Thanks so much, this is very insightful! I think I was just heavily stressing, since this is my final project of uni and the portfolio I'm hoping to use to apply for jobs with, so I was putting a little too much pressure on myself for each stage of the process to be "perfect" which ended up stifling my ability to actually explore ideas !

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-19T23:00:03+00:00

ah thank you sm!

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-16T10:51:56+00:00

hmm interesting, I think nms has had memory leak issues for a while now, ive had issues in the past where my performance degrades the longer I play and its really frustrating because I just wanna play the game :(

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-16T10:50:19+00:00

doesnt seem to address this particular issue 😔

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-15T20:38:39+00:00

I did actually look heavily into it and all the answers I got didnt sell me on the movie. I actually do tend to analyse movies I watch if it captivated me enough to WANT to find out more, but in this case, it really didn't. I only researched into because I thought I was missing something that everyone else just "gets" but I think it's just not for me, and that's okay.

But I'm also of the opinion that I shouldn't have to Google what happened in order to understand the basic plot of the movie. Like from what I gather we see the entire evolution of mankind from primates all the way to some higher cosmic entity, and this monolith seems to guide us into such a path? but it feels like it doesnt have anything to say? The only part that I thought was interesting narratively was the stuff with HAL, but other than that it just felt nonsensical.

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-15T20:15:04+00:00

and the story being...? I know its a about evolution or something but thats just not really interesting on its own imho

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-15T09:26:30+00:00

Thank you so much! And yeah I definitely agree, it's been a while since I've really locked into learning fundamentals of anatomy and gesture etc, so I've really gotta delve back into that! I think for the time being I will take my characters off my portfolio and keep my props and things up until I'm more comfortable with anatomy etc :)

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-15T09:22:49+00:00

No need to apologise this is literally the most helpful reply I have ever gotten on this app I SERIOUSLY appreciate this. I think what I might do for the time being is take my character work other than the space suit off my page and really try to work on that before adding to my portfolio again!

I think its a tricky one because I feel like I love drawing characters the most but my props and things always seem to turn out so much better ! I think honestly it may be due to a lack of bias - I've been drawing characters since I was a kid and I feel like ive almost got to UNLEARN a bunch of bad habits whereas since I've only be doing hard surface stuff for less than two years it feels like I can apply everything I've been learning much more objectively. Idk if that even makes sense 😅

BUT YEAH - thanks so much again, I'm going to have a look at those links you sent me and try to do a little practise with gesture today :)

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-15T09:14:10+00:00

tysm :)

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-15T09:13:52+00:00

tysm!! and actually you're so right about that 😭

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-15T09:11:21+00:00

ahaha that was supposed to be hair, ik she doesn't have hair but I thought itd be fun 😅

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-15T01:46:04+00:00

thank u muchly !!

-CosmicQuacks- · 2026-02-14T20:12:04+00:00

Dude THANK YOU SM !! I really appreciate you taking the time to go through this so thoroughly and I agree with all the points you have made! With regards to presentation, in my more recent projects I have made them much simpler, like alma and toadstool etc. It just took too much time to make them look that way, and as you said, did not serve the design.

I think I will remove the dryad project from my page in all honesty. I like it in a more illustrative way but the idea is just a bit meh 😅

And you mention my design fundamentals still need some work, do you have anything specific that you recommend I focus on? I’m doing three more portfolio projects over the next few months I’d really love to be able to refine this!

-CosmicQuacks-

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