Q49. Do you have any OCs who have had their designs radically changed from when you first conceptualized them?
Aside from the ones I touched on in the last question and excluding simple outfit design changes...
Alcata went through a pretty dramatic change. I wasn't all that happy with her original design, which had shorter and lighter blue hair, facial markings under her eyes, and overall plain in terms of outfit, which also seemed a bit too much for a mermaid, but it was mostly because I didn't want to draw a lady with a revealing top because I couldn't draw womanly chests or whatever. Recently my friend was kind enough to redesign her using her Gaia avi as a reference, and man oh man does she look lovely now. Especially since she was fortunate enough to find some really nice artists to draw her avi so nicely. :3 Alcata has the most favorites so far and tends to get the most compliments because of the lovely design and art my friend acquired~ My other friends have also helped me redesign other characters using their avis, which I'm very happy about.
Buffy and Wenona were both redesigned to have much more interesting outfits and hairstyles using dressup games, because I suck at complicated hair and dresses. XD In fact a lot of dressup games have helped me redesign a lot of characters that had really plain designs before, since although most games have rather limited choices if you already have a theme in mind it's a pretty nice way to give yourself ideas for a fresh look, and then make whatever changes you like when you eventually draw them yourselves. Plus... I love dressing up things... NO SHAME Some other dressup game redesigned characters of mine are Dratta, Jane, Katsena, Kikea, and Sharen. And these are just characters that already had a design prior. There are some that I only had basic ideas but never drew them before using the games, so I don't count that as redesign really. ^^; And I didn't count the ones that didn't undergo any eye, hair, facial changes and only got some clothing upgrade from the games. I'm really happy with how I was able to put together Jane's new look. It's really lovely and she's gotten a lot of beautiful art since then. I certaily wouldn't have thought to give her that type of outfit and hair unless the outfit pieces were there in front of me in the game. Her original design was soooooooo dull.
My brother in law was kind enough to redesign Dremvati for me. Really happy with how it turned out~ His original art of the new design is in her gallery still. :3 And Mac and Mara used to be puffball people, like from a Kirby fandon kind of world I made up. XD Actually Mac was Kirby, but I just ended up taking his characterization and sticking it to a totally new and non-fandom related revamp of the world and general story I had going. Almost everyone from this story was redesigned years ago to be non-fandom related. Mackerby was a combo of Kirby and another character named Mac, so I took Kirby's personality and Mac's general design and made it into a new humanoid character instead. Mara was Kirby's best friend in the story, and I took her personality and the design of Mac's friend Jay and did something similar. Purity was a Jigglypuff, Buffy was an Igglybuff, Wenona was a Wigglytuff, Addle was a winged Waddle Dee, and Kira was also a puffball person. Zero came much later and wasn't really redesigned in any way, but he's a humanoid form of the Kirby boss, 02. And Nyfringe doesn't count because he also came later and has made no design changes.
And there's still a buttload I plan on redesigning, so tally ho~