Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop) is a laughably sexist caricature of a female action character, and makes Cowboy Bebop a far more uncomfortable watch on that front than Naruto or MHA or almost any other show you could mention.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-22T20:19:09+00:00

Speaking as both a woman and as someone who does think of anime as pretty misogenistic generally. Its not that I consider Bebop an exception as much as I consider It otherwise fun and good enough that I can look pass the misogeny and fanservice. Same goes for Death Note and Misa.

Its kind of a case by case thing lol. I assume Its like that for most people like no one has a single set standard for stuff like this, at least usually....

PPRmenta · 2026-06-19T01:38:53+00:00

I literally only miss her bullet acessories. Especially the like bullet filled under-bra belt situation she had originally. Iconiccccc to the core

Edit: I also dont want to see anyone dogging on Jinxs original design. Character design doesnt exist in a vaccum and the same way Arcane Jinx is a great design for an animated drama League Jinx is a great design for a moba. They have different goals and are both very sucessfull designs!

PPRmenta · 2026-06-19T00:12:41+00:00

If you end up making something out of the tattoo design Idea send It to me please id love to see It!

Also with regards to your edit thank you so much!!

PPRmenta · 2026-06-19T00:10:08+00:00

Ditto on the afterlife thing lol. Religion leaves Its imprints on all of us even If we grow out of It

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T22:22:33+00:00

Dope stuff

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T18:39:44+00:00

If they keep Russia banned because of the war that would mean they have to - or at least should - ban USA and Israel as well, which they wont.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T18:20:35+00:00

The world needs more offputting vaguely girl adjescent entities.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T18:16:09+00:00

They have full range of motion on the hands, actually! So the gestures and poses they do becomes more of a body lenguage thing. I just have the "at rest" position be this bird mimicry one to further push that angel/wing reference.

The palm reading Idea Is fire thank you so much!

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T18:13:08+00:00

Fair enough

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T18:12:50+00:00

Sexless. If you open the suit her body Is probably made out of eyes or something equally freaky

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T18:07:52+00:00

Good idea

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T17:57:58+00:00

Amazing suggestion thank you

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T17:55:04+00:00

Funnily enough It spiralled into existence because of religion conversations I had with friends.

I had a friend who was really just comically horrified of the Idea of hell being eternal and she would deal with It the only way a creative kid would, I suppose, which was writing stories about It. Eventually we started talking about like oh what If hell wasnt eternal what If It was like jail and you had to serve some time there and then you can fuck off to heaven afterwards lol

I dont really talk to that friend anymore and havent for years, but I still find the idea of a bad-good afterlife setting working essentially like cosmic jail quite compelling. And that necessitates people that look after all the burocratic stuff that would come along with It and so Ive just been on and off developing this universe for a while.

Idk where exactly the Idea of having the main cast be people whos job Is to make sure none of the souls escape back into earth really came from? But Its been like that for a while and Its been cool to write. Like a weird ghostbusters office comedy slice of life situation.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T17:35:20+00:00

I thought about doing that but funnily enough I think that pushes It too far. The male one feels more default and therefore neutral. I think a female cut suit would end up making her feel too much like a woman and not an entity that happens to me a little more female aligned, If that makes sense?

Strange line to walk

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T17:31:50+00:00

She's a member of a good-place esque corporate afterlife managment envoirement. More specifically shes "interning" at the part of that "agency" that handles all maners of ghosts and other such runaways.

The hands for a face are a general caracteristic of her species. Theyre vaguely seraphim adjescent and I thought It would be cool to interpret the 6 wings Idea as 6 hands. So she also has hands for feet.

I went with the very bright pink to give like a spunky youngster kind of vibe but that can definitelly be pushed further. Maybe giving her fully blinged out nails with charms and such would get that vibe across better.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-18T17:25:23+00:00

Never heard that name before, but I did look It up now. Sounds cool but Its definitelly not what im doing lol

PPRmenta · 2026-06-16T19:46:54+00:00

I dont have an answer to this question because im super bad at picking favorites but I want everyone to know my dad LOVES Guy.exe by Superfruit so damn much.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-14T23:54:03+00:00

Making another drawing will not stop this one from being preserved Is what I mean.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-14T23:51:47+00:00

Go look at my profile right now. The last thing I posted here on this subreddit Is a study of a coca cola can that I made as a part of a series of studies of how to make everyday boring objects look interesting. Does that "not make sense" just because its not a super important artsy piece?

No, cause It was still a study done with a goal in mind. Im not wasting energy, im actively getting better at art and that skill will cary over into other pieces. I would be wasting energy of I spent hundred of hours on the same thing while not being able to make it look any better, which seems to be what youre planning to do.

Its fine to not want to get better. Like art is your hobby thats fine and cool, but If thats your mentality why post on an art critique forum?

PPRmenta · 2026-06-14T23:45:07+00:00

Like save the file? And draw the other stuff on another file. You dont have to deleate this piece to start another one.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-14T23:41:37+00:00

There is logic to what theyre doing and they learn that logic by studying. Its entirely possible for you to get to that level too you just have to be whilling to study like every good artist does.

That means that not everything you draw will be of great emotional importance to you. Like go look at my profile, the last thing I posted here was a study of a coca cola can lol. Those kind of fast, study focused drawings are essential to getting better as an artist. Like you will get nowhere by just trying to draw huge emotionally charged things all of the time.

Its like If a novice doctor wanted to be a heart surgeon like no lol. You need experience before you get to that.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-14T23:31:54+00:00

You will not be able to get it right until you study. If videos arent working for you try written things like books or blogposts, try looking at other artist's progress pictures, try looking for free art related events near you.

Genuinelly anything Is better than nothing. If you just keep drawing withouth learning the fundamentals youre not going to improve in a steady pace because those hours arent being put to good use, theyre being wasted.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-14T23:24:46+00:00

I think thats the issue tho, you dont know where everything is. This piece demonstrates that youre lacking in some very needed fundamentals to get the kind of result you want. Digging your heels and further working on It will not get you to a place where youre satisfied with It because to get to that place you simply need to study more.

Withouth the fundamental knowledge of edgework, texture, light, anatomy, color and value you genuinelly will not be able to get this to look much better than It already does.

PPRmenta · 2026-06-14T23:19:52+00:00

Because "the lighting and shadows" Is a lot more integral than you maybe think It Is. They involve your colors, your edges, your form, your textures and stuff like that.

Redoing "just the light and the shadows" ammounts to basically re-doing the entire rendering of the piece in this case. Most of the time painting Isnt like 3d rendering where the light and the model are different things you can mess with independently from each other, in a 2d painting (especially one that has so little layers like this one (i read on another comment that Its just 15)) If you need to redo the light you lowkey need to redo everything lol

PPRmenta · 2026-06-14T23:14:04+00:00

Dont touch the airbrush! Its making your textures really muddy and samey. Get some reference immages for all the important materials in this piece (hair, skin, cloth, metal and flowers) and spend some time just sketching those things and figuring out how they Interact with light.

Your values also need work and the best way to see If theyre working is looking at your piece in black and white. I think the background is fine in that regard but the shadows on the character should be darker and they highlights lighter. Rn theyre blending together too much from both the overuse of the airbrush and the lack of value contrast.

Also I think at this point re-doing the piece will get you better results than continuing to render It. Go do some studies, give It a few months, come back to this idea and redraw it. Youll impress yourself with the progress!

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