Link-Riolu 2.1
• new head to go with the new body
• new hat
• improved glasses
• improved proportions
• other improvements
• added a 50 % chance that you have to open this site again after 15 seconds
• updated the localisation files
I’m still not satisfied with this drawing but after days I couldn’t find any changes that I liked more. I like this Riolu and the hat individually but at first they looked weird together. Over the last week I’ve gotten more used to it and now I’m not sure if I just think it looks weird because for years I was used to my old profile pictures with the hat being on Riolu nearly horizontally, not exposing the forehead that much. Link’s hat just is that far back and this was the best possible way I could find to manoeuvre the hatband thing part between the ears and feelers. Amarizo said it looks like the hat would fall off any moment which is true, but it’s even worse for Link as he doesn’t have ears sticking through holes in the hat holding it in place. What I like the least are the glasses. They just look completely wrong, perspectively and the very tilted temples (apparently they’re called temples in english for some reason, I’ll dedicate my right temple to wisdom and inspiration and my left temple to courage and hope) but I couldn’t find any better way that doesn’t obstruct the eyes and the temples have to go up to the feelers as there is nothing else that could hold the glasses in place. Maybe I should change the view angle.
While I think it looks okay overall now, when I only see the head in the form of a small profile picture it still looks very weird to me.
I guess I’ll have to get a lot more (pixel-) art experience to be able to create something that I as perfectionist can be satisfied with. Let’s see how long it takes until the next rework.
