I watched the music videos for “Awesome as I want to be” and “Life is a Runway” (Rainbow Dash and Rarity’s songs) animated by the official studios and while the designs aren’t that nice some of the facial expressions were pretty dynamite. I wanted to try them out with Loose Canon Spark and her new mask!
In revisiting and reworking the Loose Canon manuscript, I realized Serenade doesn’t seem present enough in Season 1, considering she’s supposed to be the main antagonist. She’s clearly present in episode 05, there’s a brief glimpse of her in episode 06–then she disappears until episode 11, when she launches her Rat King attack on Earth. I want to try to add her to some of the interim episodes, and one possibility is the Fable episode, where Spark becomes a ferret and Vahaadi becomes a caracal.
Serenade’s design is modeled after a mouse, but if she were to appear as an enemy in that form, she wouldn’t be very threatening! As a ferret, Spark would be bigger than she is, and Vahaadi could eat her in one gulp! (NOT that I think it would even occur to him to try, I’m just saying…)
Her hennin is supposed to resemble ears, but in looking at it, it also resembles a cobra’s hood. Plus, she’s got that diamond motif going on…so, what about a cobra?
It’s kind of a departure from my plan for her, but I think it will be a lot more exciting to see Spark fight with a cobra! While the mouse motif better suits the Pied Piper vibe, a cobra kinda elicits a snake charmer vibe, which is also cool. And I get to exploit her diamond patterns! What do you think?
I’ve been trying to experiment with styles for Krissy/Spark–both wardrobe and drawing style. Here’s a study I initially did to compare how I draw Krissy (really bony and angular, no meat) to Spark (curvier, fuller…I forced myself to use the Krissy base and draw Spark’s features on top, and it looks all wrong), but I also used it as a mannequin to try out a uniform idea. The first version is her wearing it properly, and the second is the way I think it would look by the end of the day: rolled up sleeves, loosened tie, untucked shirt.
And this is a cartoony style study 😀 I was inspired by this person specifically, but I didn’t pull it off as I’d hoped. Things I was trying for this look: Big hair, round eyes, large head ratio, delicate limbs, little feet and hands, exaggerated clothes shapes (specifically her boots).
Here are these! To help CallyAnn have a visual reminder that Krissy really loves comic books, not just sports. ^_^
To be fair, the commission was quite nice, it just wasn’t Spark.
