Livahk Female Worker Basic

At loooong last, here's the basic model for the female Livahk worker. This took way too long, but in my defense, stuff came up, for example, the subject of a certain gloomy journal. That really killed off my creativity for a time. But enough talk, let's move on to different talk.

As far as the mole people thus far go, her design has been by far the hardest. She also changed the most from the first version, reflecting the evolution of my overall Livahk concept. I did a lot of thinking about her face and upper body wear especially. Like I said on a previous sketch of her, I really worried about making her consistent with the guys but also adequately female. On that note, steadily making her boobs bigger as I refined the design was a very mature and nuanced decision firmly grounded in complex art theory just like all aspects of her design.

Another aspect of her design I waffled on a lot was her color scheme. It mainly came down to this setup, which felt a bit too cool overall, and one with green, which was perhaps too colorful, and had contrast issues, but felt warmer. Either case met the criteria of consistent colors with previous designs, but after much deliberation and discussion, we went with the scheme you see. The hair color she has was initially just an off-the-wall choice, but it worked surprisingly well and I kept it. So evidently, Livahk are either blond or unnatural shades of red. Ultimately there will be tribal battles, so it's important to keep each tribe in a fairly consistent color scheme.

Those who have been paying attention to past model sheets may notice that her tail is covered. This is primarily a preemptive measure to counter some potential technical issues when it comes time for the model, and may be changed to be an uncovered tail like the rest. Until she's modeled it's a simple change to make. If this does stick, it'll be explained as some sort of cultural gender standard. Barely covered boobs, meh, but only harlots show their tails in public!

The final issue of note is the skirt diagram. Since questions about the layering of the clothes have come up before, and I've noticed some character designers will do simple diagrams of the character's clothes for some reason, I did a simple sketch. But really, I don't exactly see why they will specifically note how this stuff works when the character always wear the exact same clothes the whole game, and even if they do change clothes, you don't see them strip, for obvious reasons. Still, because it has been asked about, and I want to be like the cool kids, the diagram is there. Potential future obsessive cosplayers rejoice! Really, though that outfit has got to be a pain to take on and off because it would all have to go on in a certain order.