Design Preferences

Posted 8 years, 3 months ago by Pepperly

[taken from here]
I thought this would be interesting to fill out?


Bolded = ultimate fav
Underlined = ultimate un-fav

General Feel

Do

  • Nice silhouette
  • Good amount of contrast (value/color)
  • Bipedal
  • Bright / Colorful

Don't

  • Muzzles
  • Beaks
  • Greys/Drab palette with no saturated accent color

Species Preferences

Do

  • 3-ish unique traits + interesting lore
  • Memorizable markings
  • Nice silhouette
  • Easily clothed
  • Cute
  • Harpies
  • Foxes
  • Cats
  • Toe Beans

Don't

  • Sparkledogs
  • Most CS animals, tbh
  • "Closed species" that are a human with a single very generic trait tacked on (ie: kemonomimi)
  • CS with every trait under the moon
  • Goats/Horses
  • Aquatics
  • Insects/Spiders

Body Type Preferences

Do

  • Pretty much anything, as long as it's "proportional"
  • Seriously, as long as I can imagine it moving/balanced, it's probably fine

Don't

  • Extra limbs
  • Missing limbs (prosthetics are cool tho?)
  • Body horror
  • Extra eyes
  • Hyper

Colour Preferences

Do

  • Y e l l o w
  • Anything + yellow accent (I'm serious)
  • Primaries
  • Blue + opposite value brown (light + dark)
  • Floral colors
  • Antique palettes
  • Natural colors+markings of birds/fish/lizards

Don't

  • Single hue schemes
  • Super pastel
  • Super dark
  • Taste the Rainbow
  • Pure Black or White

Marking Preferences

Do

  • Gradients+ sharp markings
  • Swoopy
  • Freckles
  • Natural markings of mammals
  • Runes

Don't

  • Markings with no "theme"

Accessories Preferences

Do

  • Swoopy things: Capes, Cords, Scarves, Ribbons, long Coats, long Hair
  • Scars
  • Weapons
  • Pockets/Pouches with things inside
  • Magic charms

Don't

  • Hot Topic
  • "Kinky" accessories
  • Sexualized anything

Miscellaneous Preferences

Likes

  • Feathers
  • Androgynous designs
  • Wings
  • RPG-styled outfits from "during the age of exploration" (see: Skies of Arcadia/Radiata Stories/U3P worlds of Star Ocean)
  • Dandy, Venetian, Renaissance
  • Light Armor
  • Blind in one eye
  • Girls who can beat up boys/monsters/whatever
  • Boys who can be sad/weak
  • Silliness
  • Magical
  • Anthro feet with open-toe shoes

Dislikes

  • Hot Topic/Rave outfits
  • Most cyberpunk, steampunk
  • Lolita (Current/Japanese)
  • Young kids/babies
  • Old enough for me to have to figure out how to draw sagging wrinkles

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