Turning SEA CREATURES 🐙 into PIRATES 🧜♀️🏴☠️(CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE)
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Fun fact the angler fish pirate design works because female pirates sometimes used to fight topless so that other pirates would know they were being beat by women
this is the kind of unhinged badass behaviour I wish to achieve
I love the idea of them picking up a stowaway from somewhere and the stowaway endearing themselves to the crew. Like it’s this girl somewhere between 18 and 24 who’s innocent but not naive, and she hears about their curse and is all like “what can I do to help?” And their like “that’s cute kid, let’s get you back to dry land.” And that’s their whole arc together.
❤❤❤ this screams of sapphic undertones. It’s perfect.
By the end they are all pinning so hard and the land girl is oblivious.
NOW HEAR THIS
a child that they are forced to babysit and they know nothing about children
@@jupitersaylor7999 That's my favorite kind of story and I don't know why.
HOW TF U ALWAYS MAKE THE HOTTEST CHARACTERS??? Be still, my heart
XD
Yes indeed ! The first and third one especially, dang.
Always so hot lol
i love the saw shark and angler fish designs!!!! aaaaa the saw shark being wrath is so funny as well bc it's giving "if everyone thinks of me as brash and cruel, then why not be just that?" like instead of proving them wrong, she proves them right, which only causes her demise :) idk maybe it caught up to her or something
(also the 7 deadly sins concept is really nice please please please continue this (only if you want to ofc))
oh yeah that's a cool idea
Imagining these characters moving in an environment is so funny too me. The angler character would have such a light sounding jingle while the saw shark is stomping around. OMG and imagine what their crew would look like
Names for the Pirates:
Lion's Mane Jellyfish: Any name meaning "Lion" like Leona or Aria.
Japanese Spider Crab: Kani, which is Japanese for "Crab".
Sawfish Shark: Sawyer, it's actually a gender-neutral name & a term used for someone who cuts wood, so like a woodsman. Could also provide for a headcanon in which she widdles figurines out of wood in order to meditate.
Angler Fish: Esca, which is Latin for "Bait" & I think it's also the name of that lightbulb-like antenna.
Also, I think you might've inspired me to do a similar thing for May 2048 but with sea creatures/monsters from Subnautica!
Love these names !
I like Leona for the jellyfish girl.
I love these!
Not me saying the names in a pirate accent😁😂😅😓😲
I was just looking at art of jellyfish as stained glass and jewels and now this?! idk what my phone is trying to tell me but I like it 😂💜
I think it’s telling you to embrace the jellyfish aesthetic
*in WWE voice * IIIIIIIIIITS SIREN TIME!!!
One thing I also really like about your artstyle is that you include different body types and not just the typical hyper slim and curvey girl. Like sometimes, the built of your character is more athletic, muscular, bulky, or a bit thicker, with the weight center more lower, or very skinny etc.
I love that.
Okay I am not an artst at all, but I am a cosplayer, and I am in love! Would you be okay with people (and me) cosplaying these designs? With credit of course!
Absolutely! 😍 That would be so cool
If you’re a cosplayer you’re definitely an artist!!!!
Oooooo I’d love to see that!
@@vintagepomegranate2981Indeed they are! One of the most talented type might I add, that’s sh!ts hard.
I really like the longer style rambley voiceovers!!! They really inspire me to do something creative :)
Same ! Listening to Kira rambling on about her thought process and design details is so inspiring !
2:23 may you PLEASE do a tutorial on how you draw these character design thumbnails and how you come up with them!?They’re absolutely beautiful and they’re not even the finished products.
Would love to see you draw mermaids/mermen sometime!! silicone mermaid tails are huge inspo
For Mermay perhaps?
@@gratefulmama618 that’s genius!
Yeah! Definitely! I love this idea!
i love the unscripted voiceovers. tangents are always welcome and relevant in my book
I once had an OC that was a siren who joined a crew of pirates, halfway because she was kidnapped and halfway because she didn't want to lure men to their deaths just because. Eventually she starts finding out which crews they have rivalries with and starts anonymously making "treasure maps" that actually lead back to where she came from, so they get caught by sirens instead.
Just kinda reminded me of this.
Oooh, that's a really cool idea!
Also, I think the jellyfish girl's sin is probably pride, a pleasure from their own achievements they closely associated to or possessions they admire the most, and pride is considered to be the mother of sins, so I think that would be a good fit.
Someone else mentioned Sawyer as a nice gender-neutral name for the saw shark pirate, and Esca for the anglerfish, and I agree! I think "Kai" for the Japanese spider crab (貝 is kanji for shellfish). I also keep thinking about in Inuyasha, Naraku's human name "Onigumo" means "Demon Spider" and I feel like that would be a fitting last name.
Saw Shark gives me major 'Black Sails' Anne Bonnie vibes, so maybe she turn to piracy to escape her life "as a woman" (i.e. arrange marriage, abusive husband, etc.) Maybe she used to run with a different pirate crew, disguised as a man, and channeled all her pent up rage from her old life and trauma into her ferocious pirate persona. Eventually, she got even too manic for her old crew to handle and they marooned her. The sea actually saves her life with the curse, which is why she's the most transformed of this crew, but the lesson she has yet to learn is to let go of her past and realize that she has made a new life for herself.
If the jellyfish pirate also has a dark past, maybe Sawyer needs to learn how to be more gentle from her and embrace the new lives they've made. I imagine these two were the first ones to come together, and act as de facto leaders of their crew. I think the anglerfish would be like an assassin.But she took the least convincing to be part of the crew. I think, if anything, she's collected the most souls and was on her own for the longest; but the sea has not released her from the curse because she's become gluttonous on human souls now as well. Spider Crab took the longest convincing to actually join the crew and is the loner type. She becomes a mercenary, joining the crew when it suits her, and slowly spends more and more time with the crew on raids, eventually permanently joining their band.
These are gorgeous I’m amazed 😊 it would be beautiful if you made mermaids themed of fish to just make like a hole pirate world😂
*Whole
The fact that you pull from so many references from so many places, periods, and media types is so inspiring and interesting.
I love the spooky sea creatures so I see this as an absolute win
These character design videos are amazing for inspiration, makes me want to draw instantly 🥰
Imagine all the clothes they wear just morphs into the creature's aspects without them wanting them to.
I love all four sea characters.💖
The Rachel Maksy Reference *chef's kiss*
For anyone afraid of the sea or interested: there is nothing down the Mariana Trench and other not explored zones of the oceans. That's why we don't explore them, because there is no life there, just some freezing water and some rocks. No Megalodons, no dinosaurs, no sea monsters, just more water (they would need food to survive and there is none there). When new fishes are discovered nowadays, it's in areas we have already explored. I am myself a big Nessy fan, but I can tell you, if something this big existed, we would know about it already (yes, I am heartbroken about Nessy being not real, we don't talk about it)
Thank you for your fellow understanding lil bread, it’s highly appreciated 👍
it's not like there's nothing there
I feel like you are underselling the deep sea snailfish and the unusually large amphipods (unusually large here meaning 5 centimeters)
I like the casualness of the voice overs, all of the colors are so pretty and the designs are so cohesive together I love it!!
I feel like the jellyfish girl would be the most vibrant in personality and try to bring the group together and the ex-navy officer tries to boss everyone around, but eventually all become really close, also I don't know why but I feel like the shark pirate would be named Tessa
I absolutely adore your art style! The fact that you can take these creatures that make my heart stop from fear, and make them into people who make my heart stop because I’m flustered is incredible!!!
Two of my fav thing’s combined, awesome vid idea as always!!💅
something cool I noticed that Sawshark and Anglerfish have more fish-like features than Lionsmane and Spider Crab.
Maybe those two have been cursed longer than the other two
I absolutely love the Japanese Spider Crab design! Like the sharpness of it all is just 👌
I also love the angler fish and the pearls are just gorgeous, but honestly all of the designs just shine and are so unique
How you came up with such AMAZING designs?? OMG the last one was my favorite
i fucking love love love the white highlights you throw on in the end! really ties it all together
Loved this video!! Female villains are ✨ the best ✨
Your drawing videos always inspire me to draw and design something myself!
Also i don't mind the longer, unscripted voiceovers, might prefer them actually :D
I like the idea instead of the ocean trying to teach them to be balanced people it's rewarding them for going deeper into their vices and tendencies
I love your videos! You inspire me in so many ways! You made me love fantasy nonsense. Love it, keep it up. 😊
I like the angler fish girl being very delicate and attractive on the top and heavily armored on the legs because its just like how the anglerfish draws fish in, then attacks
Yo, the anglerfish characters name has GOT to be Angelica. Similar start to the name, she's got a lot of flowy white and pearls, I think it fits really well.
A repeating theme of toothiness; a Mo-teef 😁
👍👍These are all awesome, I always love seeing the end result of your ideas!
I freaking love. all of your videos so much. Your like so similar to me. spider crab character was definitely my favorite
have you ever seen black sails? it’s an amazing pirate show
My brother is obsessed with it lol, I started it but I need to keep watching
I honestly love the longer style videos with unscripted commentary and I love your videos ❤
Of course the Lion's Mane Jellyfish pirate is my personal goddess and I will give her my soul, no questions asked.
Nothing like a good character design video to get the creative juice flowing
Shark tooth swords and knives are real historical weapons, and while they're not as swoopy as that they sure did exist so you're good!!
The crab one is my fave!
I just have been loving all your character designs. The characters you make are so ✨extra ✨ in the best of ways! It's just so calming, fun and cool to see you add all the frills, detailing and extra elements! It's just so satisfying. Plus your delightful visual humour with anime and assless cowboy pants are just fantastic and just make everything so much better :D xD
Fitting for pirates of the Caribbean
I love these designs ^^! It makes me tempted to draw the more water/oceanic zodiac designs I got brewing as seafarers [ though god/goddess won cause honestly your videos on turning things into goddesses won me over^^] These are so beautiful ^^, you are amazing!
I know this video is so old but girl I am right there with you re: the ocean. That stuffs scary!! It was so fun playing the game DREDGE and getting scared more by the completely benign aesthetic whales than the actual monsters 😅
These are all gorgeous as usual! I especially like the crab girl; the colour pallet, the weapons just everything about her is amazing and the blue eyes were the cherry on top.
THIS IS SICK HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT DRAWING
gosh if you made an art book damn I'd love that
25:57 through another artist, who also does character design, she did her research and found out that gluttony isn’t technically the act of over eating. It’s the act of over indulging yourself in multiple things. And and fun fact, sloth is the act of not caring about anything at all
@loves art23- she’s a RUclipsr, who does character redesigned that gets in depth into their concept and research concept
I love the longer style where you go off the dome!
babe wake up, im leaving you for prickly alpaca's pirates
The back story that could work for Jellyfish is that she could have a similar situation I forgot his name. Where she grew up in a pirate life but, got married to an aristocrat and, couldn't give up her lifestyle and so abandoned her family.
I really love your character design videos! You’re a wizard at painting translucent fabric.
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omg this was such a fun and inspiring!! I'd love to see some character design tips from you in the future!
I gotta say I think my favorite design was either the Saw Shark or the Angler Fish
incredible designs
I adore the tangents so much, please don't stop! I love hearing your chaotic train of thought that somehow makes complete sense. Watched this and your last video to my bff as I was watching her play the Yu-Gi-Oh app game while we laid on the floor playing with her cat which I feel like fits your channels energy so much. love what you do
I love the longer voice overs, and ofc the characters! These videos have quickly rocketed to the top of my *must watch* list.
perfect! what's the best cure for sudden anxiety? exactly, pirate art made by awesome ppl
and my fav animal gets mentioned so fuck yeah
I love the new designs! All the stuff with pearls and chains is so cool I NEED THEM IN MY LIFE!
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks Japanese spider crabs are absolute nightmare fuel
Love the designs and stories for this video!
STUNNING! COLORFUL! WONDEROUS! A BOUNTIFUL SET OF MAGNIFICENT PIRATE LADIES! Bravo to you, Prickly.
I ADORE your art style - it's so beautiful, and your talk about shape-language and readability is honestly so helpful!
wow, these are so good !!! they are all amazing, i cant pick a favourite. as a guy i do wish you added at least one male pirate lol. so i made my own--a lil tiger puppy shark boy and a spooky whale shark captain with star motifs. i always find it fun to draw along with you and see how different the individual interprets things creatively.
My dude PLEASE do more of these, I love watching them so much and your designs are so good!!!
I love watching you design costumes! They’re so inventive and inspiring!
Unscripted tangents are life.
The jellyfish looks really elegant and the spider crab is excited extremely well. I love the saw shark design! The blue, red and grey color scheme looks super cool! OMG THE ANGLER FISH !!! Very cool altogether!
Absolutely am in love with these characters they all are interesting and detailed!
oh these all look so sick !
I love the new "mic" xd
And your art is amazing, I always draw along
These are all STUPENDOUS
words can't describe how much I love the shark and angler fish designs, this was so fun to watch too
Somehow I can just imagine these characters being the romance interests in a dating sim where the player has to help them lift their curse and then they get their happily ever after and yay and woo
Thank you so much for making all my favorite sea animals for me i love your art style so much
I think my personal fave out of these ones has got to be the crab one, I'm a slut for nice shades of red and I looove how the coat tails with the leggies look
I have the biggest fear of sharks, deep sea, underwater weird creature things...
BOY THE INTRO JUMPSCARED ME
For characters based on animals, I often kind of like stealing bits of the scientific names for them. So for the Lions mane (Cyanea Capillata) maybe Cyanea or Cyane, the Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) could be Cheira or Kae, or we could use one of the older names for the species and go with Maja. The sawshark could be one of a couple different species from the order Pristiophoriformes, so we could go with Prist or Ophori or Plio from one of the genera. There are a lot of species of Anglerfish (order Lophiiformes), so lots of options, but I kind of think Lophi is fine.
Stunning ! These designs look beautiful.😄
They would get my soul so fast i love them
I love your videos and your art so much. You are one of my big favourites. You give me a lot of inspiration and you helped me out of my artblock.Thank you so much!♡
all the designs were amazing💜 love your drawing style.
Outstanding!❤❤❤
A little correction on punk subculture; it didn't start with modified school uniforms, it started with the disgruntled UK and US working class suffering during economic turndown during the 60s into the 70s. It was anti-establishment, anti-military and all about human rights, self expression, sustainability, DIY and reuse until disintegration (that's where the duct tape and safety pins came in).
I wasn't really referring to the US/ UK punk scene. I probably didn't explain myself properly and I could be wrong because I don't know a ton about the Japanese punk movement, but I was thinking more along the lines of "Sukebans" and Japanese delinquent/ "punk" culture of the 70s and 80s. This was more of a visual reference than anything else, but that's what I meant by people customizing their uniforms.
Pirates always got them BOOTS.
i love these designs so much!!! especially the angler fish!! so freakin cool!!!
I love these so much
I adore the OFMD references. My hyperfixations were mentioned, and i lost my mind lmao. These are beautiful as always, i love your art style and thought process throughout all these.
The large style is goood!! Thank you the for art video!!
watching these videos is so satisfying - scratches the itch of wanting to design characters, and without the disappointment of not being able to make it look good! xD youre really great at this :)
Angler fish is giving me Jane Doe vibes from “Ride the cyclone” and reminds me of the song she sings as well.
this is absolutely amAZING. I've been watching your character design videos for quite some time now and the idea of turning *whatever* into a character is absolutely my cup of creativity. but honestly some of the more recent character design series were just not speaking to me as much as the older ones, like sky magical girls or the four elements. with these fishy pirate characters I feel the series is back on track with their maybe a bit simpler colour palettes, more readable silhouettes, just the right amount of contrasts and details, visual consistency of the four characters and other hard-to-describe aesthetics qualities which my brain considers visually pleasing. thanks again for sharing these characters and their design process, so cool and inspiring!
Omfg I am obsessed with all of this T^T
Especially the jelly and angler fish-there’s just something about flowy, see-through stuff that itches my brain just right…
I love the new voice over style, i really like hearing your tangents tbh
Always love these videos! I’m especially obsessed with these ladies! Also I like the new voiceover style
The rambly voice over adds a lot of character, i feel like im having a real conversation with you, it's real nice! I love hearing about your thought process when it come to these sorts of things, it makes me want to create something too :D your designs are always so stunning and visually interesting, this time around I am floored by your creativity! Keep being you, you're super cool :))