I'm not totally sold on Diona - I think the redesign is equally as adorable as the canon design but it doesn't scream bartender to me either? It's giving more magical girl and I don't think she looks like she's from Mondstadt. Also the critique of Diona not having any blue is too funny what with Charlotte, Wriothesley, Freminet and Roasria all existing and being very much not blue lol.
same. she is so much better without the blue. its not like having to wear your visions color is a set rule.. kazuha doesnt have an inch of green on him
@@3daniku 100%, and to add onto your points here's all the characters that don't have the vision colours; Anemo(Teal) - Heizou, Sayu, Kazuha (arguments could be made for Sucrose and Venti being more blue and green than teal) Pyro - Diluc(I don't accept his hair) but a lot of them are 90% black or another colour with the smidge of red accents Electro(purple) - Razor, Beidou, Kujo, Yae Miko Cryo(Light blue) - Kaeya, Qiqi, Diona, Ganyu(purple hues), Roasria, Shenhe, Freminet, Wriothesley and Charlotte Hydro(blue) - Barbara, Childe, Kokomi(colour wise), Ayato, Candace Dendro(Green) - Tighnari, Alhaitham, Kaveh, Baizhu and Kirara Geo(Yellow) - Noelle, Gorou, Itto, Yun Jin Basically to say, some elements stick to having accent colours as the elements but A LOT of characters stray from the element colour. And even as I was making the list I was like "is that even enough ___ to be considered ok?"
i'm really happy that you drew raiden with a thicker body type! i've always kind of imagined her that way, i don't really know why, but i think it fits her character.
Yess! It makes her stand out as a more unique character as she is just a reused model for all the other reused female characters and it shows diversity (sorry if i worded this wrong im tired 😭)
Yeah, I feel like she is more of a power woman. So I can kind of imagine her a bit more buff and curvy than other characters. But… I do see why genshin decided to keep her slim, is because they want to keep her more elegant but with her design and character story powerful. But anyways, every female mommy looks like they have the same body type to yeah…
I really hate his design with a passion. Out of all the older characters his is the worst. I just hate his brown jacket sweater whatever with his bright red hair. Idk I tried to like it but I just couldn’t, same problem with zhongli but not as bad
@@2triedforthis830 real. diluc's design is just so weird. the hair stands out too much and looks bad. Zhongli's looks more, boring ig. its all the same colors, which is fine, but maybe like add more, especially since he's an archon.
hii! love the designs, but in raiden's, the sleeves are two different lengths because ei had the short sleeves and makoto had longer ones. her current design is meant to have both her and her sister within it.
I love these redesigns and your ideas! A note for future designs, the sash worn by Raiden is an obi, and they are very stiff! So they wouldnt really bend to her body shape like that ^^;; I love what you did with her stockings btw!
I love the redesigns but I also kinda wish you kept Raiden’s sleeves since the reason why they’re not the same in the first place is because one side is supposed to represent Makoto (the long sleeved side) as she wasn’t a warrior and therefore had them for traditional/ aesthetic purposes while the other side is for Ei as she needed to keep them shorter for easier movement during combat.
Great video! Just one thing, Raidens sleaves, one is short and one is long in the game and there's an explanation for this. Makoto had long sleaves and when she died while Raiden had short sleaves, she kept one short sleave for herself and one long sleave for her sister, Makoto, and it's supposed to have both her and her sister in her design. Anyways, the redesigns were amazingly done as always i just wanted to point this thing out.
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I love how Raidens armor kind of looks like the Scaramouche boss with the dark base and the red and gold accents especially looking at raidens history with scaramouche! great designs!
I know no ages are canon but I feel like Diona is around 11-12, if you've done her hangout events you'll know she tries to act more adult but it comes off more as those kids who grew up too fast, which makes sense considering her story. I feel like klee is probably around the same age but is just less mature - I knew multiple girls at 10-12 y.o who acted exactly like klee did. sayu is actually older tho, she's just rlly short, but she's always mentioned as a "young woman". I think she's probably like 15-17.
The designs were really cute! Raiden Shogun kinda looked a little wonky in my opinion because you made her body chunky but her head was small so it looked weird, other than that they look good!
As a Wanderer main, am I legally allowed to call your Raiden "mommy"? Okay but fr, I really love the designs you made! Diona looks so cute and I love her new color scheme. Raiden with more armor slaps and the headshot is SO pretty ugh! Edible. I will eat all of it.
I absolutely love genshin redesigns I would get hyped if you did more! You showed Yanfei as an example in the intro, as someone who as also done a Yanf redesign I would be super interested in how you would tackle it 👀
Sth that i find interesting about raiden is that, even tho i think shes one of the prettiest charackters in the game (her hair os legit eevrything to me) i kinda found it sad that she didnt have more armour? Like she looks great, but since shes supposed to be a warrior i kinda expected more armour, so i love ur design idea :D
Honestly, i’m not a fan of the Raiden design. So much of her outfit is tied to Makoto like for example,the more pastel colors, the long flowing sleeve on her right, the lack of armor on her right, the flower in her hair, all of this belonged to Makoto and not Ei. The current design is a combination of Ei and Makoto’s outfits with more Makoto than Ei which makes sense considering the people of Inazuma don’t know about the archon change and ,while they both ruled, Makoto was officially the archon so makes sense that Raiden would resemble Makoto more than Ei. edit: Also, she doesn’t really need armor considering Ei lives in the plane of Euthymia while the Raiden Shogun it a puppet that can be rebuilt or changed
Kazuha being anemo and having no green on him . Idk, considering how many characters there already is, and how many more there will be color-cordinating all of them to their element will start to get boring. I mean its not like a team uniform, u know?
*UWAAAHHH, I LOVE, LOVE, LOOOVVVEEE HOW YOU REDESIGNED DIONA!!! NGL, SHE LOOKS SUPER DUPER CUTER THAN HER ORIGINAL DESIGN! I’D DEFINITELY PULL FOR HER IF SHE HAD THAT DESIGN!!!! NEW SUBBIE
ahhhh they are absolutely stunning !!! your raiden redesign has to be one of the best i’ve ever seen! if you ever do more, can i please request yae miko?? im not the biggest fan of her, but i think her design has so much wasted potential, not to mention how it sexualizes shrine maidens, who are supposed to be dressed modestly :(
I personally think her dress fits her, Kitsunes are said to be seductive and mischievous. Thought yeah, I find it to be overtly sexy as well. Especially when the front skirt is very short.
@@sneakerdoodle0612 I mean she still could've very easily been seductive and mischievous without sexualizing cultural wear? Considering many fan designs have been able to do it I'm sure hoyo could've also figured something out.
Fun fact about Ei's Sleeves!! One of her sleeves is her original sleeve before the archon war and the other is the way her sisters was before she passed! I just randomly though about this when you were talking about her sleeves....
A big issue I personally have with Genshin Impact designs is that I feel like a lot of the details don't blend together in an easy to remember way. I think a great comparison is Dimitri from Fire Emblem and Dainslef, two characters who look very similar. When I try to imagine Dimitri in my head, I think of his eye patch, overgrown blond hair, fur cloak and black armour. When I try to imagine the details coming together, I remember how his armour has a blue cross over the chest and how his fur coat has black, white and blue layers. His design shows a lot of technical detail with the parts of the armour, but overall the actual features are quite simple. Dainslef though? Weeah. He also has blond hair of a similar length and an eye covering, and his outfit is black with a split cape, but when I think of the other details I'm kind of lost. I know there's some gold and hints of blue but I don't know where it all goes and I'm kept confused as to how the elements interact with each other. Now this isn't to say I think all Fire Emblem designs are good and Genshin designs are bad. I definitely feel physical pain looking at the Engage designs and there are some great Genshin character designs. But what I'm trying to bring across is there's so much detail that doesn't blend together well and it's hard to remember. I'm not saying that details can't be utilized on a design, but when so many secondary elenents are present it can be overwhelming. I think Lumine is probably the best designed character in terms of clarity and readability. The details on her are fairy light embroidery and the gold elements aren't too overwhelming. It's gotten to the point where I just see a blond ponytail and a knee-length white dress and immediately think of her. It's a complex render but the details are simple enough to be recognised. A really good video here on RUclips is Ross Draws's character design tutorial where he states that even for his complex detailed artstyle, it's a great idea to have a child or a non-artist try to draw your character from memory to see how well the elements integrate and how much clarity you've portrayed. And I feel so bad for any kid who's obsessed with Genshin and trying to draw the characters from memory because they're probably clutching ten different pens trying to remember what colour a character's shoulder is meanwhile the kid across from them is willing up a recognisable sailor moon in a minute.
YES... genshin speedpaint AND redesign video. content catered to me specifically i love this video and your redesigns!! i love diona's og design bc her color palette is so Calico(tm) to me and i love calicos but i much prefer the silhouette of the outfit you gave her, and i LOVE the raiden shogun's new hairstyle and body type and everything she's SO beautiful!! keep up the good work!!!! would love to see more of these..... 👀
I adore how these came out!! I so wish Diona looked like your redesign, I would've defineitly leveled her to 80 if that were the case lol (Shes currently suffering at lvl 50... or was it 60-?) I honestly nearly callopsed hearing you don't really care for the color purple :'D Raiden quickly became one of my favorite characters and I use her second most to my main Kazuha hehe
When you teased this video on the ddlc redesign I wasn't really interested because I never played Genshin. Now I do and I'm OBSESSED with the character designs so I think your timing is more than perfect! I'd hope you'd make a redesign of Baizhu, as much as I love that man the colors ain't it.
i would honestly love to see you redesign Childe! he's one of my favorite characters and his design just..it's so plain. and boring. and not what I would expect from a hydro wielder AND a Fatui harbinger. i think you did a great job of making the raiden Shogun more intimidating and it'd be great to see something like that for childe
I don't really follow Genshin Impact, largely because I'm not really that interested in that type of game, but I do like your artwork and it's fun seeing you create from something you love. :) I will say, seeing the examples of the short character models, I agree that the proportions are Off. I think they were trying for a 'chibi' adjacent style to have the option for cute, child-ish characters, and it ends up balancing on an uncanny valley of "Is this an adult? Is this a child? This doesn't feel right." Probably the easiest fix would be to square off the head shape and shrink the head a smidge overall, it would feel a lot more balanced and a lot less uncanny.
love how you stayed close to the original designs. The characters are still very recognizable, and even tho i love watching re-imagining or re-designing videos, i sometimes feel like the design is completely different and you wouldnt recognize the character if the ychanged it in canon (obv wouldnt happen but ya hopefully know what i mean)
These redesigns are really good. I think you really did a good job designing Diona. Her clothes definitely captured more of her occupation, while still seeming personal to Diona
I feel like the character that needs a redesign the most is Nahida. She’s cute and all but she has 0 (zero!) cultural inspirations on her design. She looks like a little european fairy while she’s supposed to represent Sumeru which is hugely inspired by SWANA cultures
Honestly I both agree and disagree at the same time. I'd like to see Nahida in SWANA inspired design, but I feel like it doesn't fit the character's story? Cus she's basically been locked up and never been outside the Sanctuary of Sursthana. So I feel like being disconnected from Sumeru's culture makes sense.
@@antiquefighter1868 Raiden locked herself away and was arguably more disconnected from her country because at least Nahida put the effort to look after her country and people through dreams, and yet she still looks clearly Japanese inspired. If they could do it for Raiden, why not Nahida? Plus she’s meant to represent Sumeru as its deity, there’s no reason why her design should look that disconnected from the culture. At least they could’ve put her in clothes that look inspired by the cultures they took inspiration from (imo her clothes are the biggest disconnect from the rest of the region). It’s easy to wave it away as “not important” or “not befitting of the character’s story” if you’re not from those cultures because you won’t care about seeing them well represented. And forgive me for saying this but the argument that it makes sense because she was locked away is nonsensical to me, because her being locked away has nothing to do with her appearance. She was like that before the sages found her and her story would not have changed at all if she looked more SWANA inspired. If anything, her looking more in tune with Sumeru would have strengthened her story rather than detracted from it, seeing how the whole point of the story is that the sages were keeping their country from flourishing. I am from that area and while as a whole I think they did a great job with Sumeru (especially the music) and it’s my favorite region, Nahida’s design is still a bit disappointing to me despite me loving her as a character.
is it just me that is a female and really disagrees with disliking female character designs because theyre more revealing and especially when its based off a culture? like bro, its based on the culture, but it isnt the culture, its supposed to be slightly unique in its own way, if i wanted to see that culture unchanged i would watch a documentary not play genshin impact. the way i see it, fictional characters are a fun way to make traditional outfits more slay and thats so fun to me. i understand this may not be everyones thing, but to see people think of it just as "for the male gaze" is sad to me. granted if it completely doesnt suit the character and/ or its done in an extremely fanservicey way, then thats a turn off, but genshin doesnt go that far anyway.
I love Raidens design, in the game and how you made her. I personally believe both of them are just gorgeous characters. I dont know why but I just love the color palate of Raiden and her outfit designs so I guess im a lil bias-
For diona she’s not just a bartender, she’s also an adventurer which is why she looks like a Girl Scout. Your design is nice but her original design is definitely better And your raiden design I really don’t like, she’s supposed to have one sleeve as a nod to her sister makoto, since she wore two short sleeves and makoto wore two long sleeves. I also don’t like how you made the kimono look a lot less like a traditional japanese kimono, since inazuma is supposed to be based on japan that includes raiden, the armour makes it difficult to see the kimono part…. Also the material on the bows in the original design are a traditional accessory which are twisted to look like that, and I think it was a bad decision to remove them Another thing: the sash looking thing worn by raiden is an obi, which are very stiff and wouldn’t bend to her body shape like in your design The art is good but it’d be better if you paid more attention to original design and character’s purpose…
THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!! The redesigns are fabulous!! (This inspires me lol) (if i had to suggest a character to resign it would probably be Chongyun probably) LOVE UR ART! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
I’m not completely with raiders redesign, simply cuz I think she’d be lean and muscular from fighting, but otheriwise I love it!!! And body positivity makes me want to combust /pos 🎉
I’m not sure about the armor for Raiden as she legit put a doll of herself and locked herself in a room. Also it’s kinda funny imagining her cooped up in a dark room eating anything sugary while wearing armor 💀. Honestly I think it’s just my biases I don’t really like armor (Sorry Gepard). It’s kinda regal but if there’s a fight you’re half prepared. I don’t imagine her as a more Beidou type character because we all agree that that design is incredibly similar to Beidou.
genshin character designs tend to be a bit of a mixed bag for me. the characters have really great ouffits across the board and their colour schemes are consistently a treat. even colours i don't like. ... but man, the proportions always look so cutesy, soft, young, and skinny. even characters like raiden look a little too soft for me. i always like seeing fan artists with different styles try a hand at redesigning and i think you did well! i will ALWAYS imagine raiden with a lil beef!
As a HUDGE diona fan/ main I loved dionas look. I think everyone can generally agree she does need to look more like a bartender besides her shaker on the back. I loved the hints of blue that you did along with her proportions. The design definitely fits her feisty personality along with her bartender look. This is honestly my favorite outfit redue of diona out of all the ones I've seen (I've seen a lot). And then of course any Raiden redesign I see is always stunning.
Fun fact, im pretty sure most kimonos tend to not show the chest as much(womens kimonos) , they cover the chestwayy more (dont fully trust this though , found it on pintrest!) , but raiden isnt wearing a traditional kimono(it seems) cause even her original design shows nore than traditional kimonos ive seen!(design is still pretty!!)
As soon as i saw diona in the Thumbnail i clicked, i Love diona and its Not often that i See her anywhere else. Also great coincidence that i found this on the 18th january, Dionas birthay :D
the designs are soooo cute!!! i think for me personally i would've kept raiden's different length sleeves since they have like a connection to her lore n stuff. i absolutely
The draping parts on the shogun's kimono is something that i noticed is just part of inazumain style clothes along with the bows made of rope. Just wanted to say this, nothing more :)
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I absolutely love genshin redesigns I would get hyped if you did more! You showed Yanfei as an example in the intro, as someone who as also done a Yanf redesign I would be super interested in how you should tackle it 👀
I love that you made raiden a bit thicker! I am a bit confused with the proportions though since you made the body thicker but kept the head the same, I think it would be more accurate if her head was a bit bigger and more accurate to a thicker body type. Overall you did amasing and I love the designs you came up with!
its not a bad video, but its always just such a disappointment when ppl change Raidens design and kill the asymmetry and/or all parts that are actually references to Makoto. Raiden finding the balance between her and Makoto's concept of eternity is reason why she is asymmetric. It just leaves a bad taste, because it implies that the redesign was done, without even trying to understand what story the old design is trying to tell.
Yea.. i'm not the biggest fans of genshin redesigns myself because every character design has its own story (that's usually ignored in redesigns), i mean, Diona doesn't even look like she's from mondstadt either now, i'm also personally not a fan of the tights she has (don't get me wrong, i completely agree about some cover up since this is a child character depiction, but i feel like the tights are just way out of place?) That said i know this is for fun and for that it looks great, no hate to the artist! I myself have made a few redesigns i'd consider "bad" and unfaithful, it's a guilty pleasure of mine lol
Have the exact same opinions on Raiden's design! She's my favorite too, and I love her color scheme and kimono patterns, but... Yeah. I tendo to draw her either straight up wearing samurai armor or ceremonial/royal kimonos more true to the real stuff, while still retaining her colors and characteristics. And yeah, also the body type - you and I shaking hands on the muscular and more body fat Raiden, and I love it! I really like how they turned out ❤️ Funny enough, my other favorite in the game is Yanfei, and I draw her wearing actual suits, like a lawyer would, all the time :P
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I was fascinated by both ideas, very beautiful. If I had to say something for possible future redesigns of Genshin, it would be that perhaps it would be interesting to take more into consideration that "Philosophy of asymmetry" that Genshin designs have. By this I mean that characteristic that these designs have, that the left side is different from the right side, either because of the way they wear the clothes, or because of the accessories they use. Obviously you are not trying to "emulate" the style directly, so you don't have to worry about overloading the design, I think a small variation from one side to the other is enough. I loved the plate on Raiden's shoulder, but I was missing something on the other arm (or even in the leg) that made it "counterbalance" (Obviously, I'm just referring to these "Genshin designs"). But really, I really liked the idea of those outfits and hair styles, and how the illustrations turned out in the end, just that was magnificent, I love your style
i literally love love loooveee ur raiden redesign!! totally agree with the armour thing, this has happened to a few other characters i cant remember rn and like.. just why 😭
ANOTHER AMAZING REDESIGN!!!!!! Defo love Raiden design - MY FAVOURITE!!! It looks amazing and she defo feels more like a warrior! I feel like Diona could had a tie of something a bit more suit like as she's a bar tender - but i LOVE HOW CUTE YOU MADE HERRRR AHAHAHA!!!! Love your vidssssss, can't wait for the next one!!!!
I'm not totally sold on Diona - I think the redesign is equally as adorable as the canon design but it doesn't scream bartender to me either? It's giving more magical girl and I don't think she looks like she's from Mondstadt. Also the critique of Diona not having any blue is too funny what with Charlotte, Wriothesley, Freminet and Roasria all existing and being very much not blue lol.
I wanted to add on this to say that in the redesign she doesn't look the type to go find her new gross ingredients for her drinks.
same. she is so much better without the blue. its not like having to wear your visions color is a set rule.. kazuha doesnt have an inch of green on him
@@3daniku 100%, and to add onto your points here's all the characters that don't have the vision colours;
Anemo(Teal) - Heizou, Sayu, Kazuha (arguments could be made for Sucrose and Venti being more blue and green than teal)
Pyro - Diluc(I don't accept his hair) but a lot of them are 90% black or another colour with the smidge of red accents
Electro(purple) - Razor, Beidou, Kujo, Yae Miko
Cryo(Light blue) - Kaeya, Qiqi, Diona, Ganyu(purple hues), Roasria, Shenhe, Freminet, Wriothesley and Charlotte
Hydro(blue) - Barbara, Childe, Kokomi(colour wise), Ayato, Candace
Dendro(Green) - Tighnari, Alhaitham, Kaveh, Baizhu and Kirara
Geo(Yellow) - Noelle, Gorou, Itto, Yun Jin
Basically to say, some elements stick to having accent colours as the elements but A LOT of characters stray from the element colour. And even as I was making the list I was like "is that even enough ___ to be considered ok?"
i'm really happy that you drew raiden with a thicker body type! i've always kind of imagined her that way, i don't really know why, but i think it fits her character.
Buff electro GOD? Best way to describe it in my head, I feel like Beidou would have a slightly thicker body type too
@@NattIsHere4 omg i thought that too
Yess! It makes her stand out as a more unique character as she is just a reused model for all the other reused female characters and it shows diversity (sorry if i worded this wrong im tired 😭)
The game models are just stupid skinny, even for skinny people xd
Yeah, I feel like she is more of a power woman. So I can kind of imagine her a bit more buff and curvy than other characters. But… I do see why genshin decided to keep her slim, is because they want to keep her more elegant but with her design and character story powerful. But anyways, every female mommy looks like they have the same body type to yeah…
It is so amazing 🥰🥰 I think the character who needs a redesign the most is Diluc, I don't know if you draw guys but it might be cool
I agree I also remember them saying they mostly drew guys before or something like that.
yes Diluc deserve Wrio's cake
I really hate his design with a passion. Out of all the older characters his is the worst. I just hate his brown jacket sweater whatever with his bright red hair. Idk I tried to like it but I just couldn’t, same problem with zhongli but not as bad
Yep, his skin is much prettier
@@2triedforthis830 real. diluc's design is just so weird. the hair stands out too much and looks bad. Zhongli's looks more, boring ig. its all the same colors, which is fine, but maybe like add more, especially since he's an archon.
hii! love the designs, but in raiden's, the sleeves are two different lengths because ei had the short sleeves and makoto had longer ones. her current design is meant to have both her and her sister within it.
I love these redesigns and your ideas! A note for future designs, the sash worn by Raiden is an obi, and they are very stiff! So they wouldnt really bend to her body shape like that ^^;; I love what you did with her stockings btw!
The obi wraps around the waist so if Raiden had a more curvy waist it would push in (I THINK?)
@@domidemi.you would think so but there are so many layers under an obi and the fabric is soo thick that it would just be stiff straight
@@p3anutbutt3rtoast11 OHHH that makes more sense
Wow! Thank you for the insight! Thats really important (and interesting) input for character design!!
For the Diona redesign, you could also make the collar a cat by placing 2 buttons either side of the hole to resemble eyes.
As soon as i saw diona in the thumbnail i got super excited she’s my fav chara and glad she’s getting a redesign by such a good artist
I love the redesigns but I also kinda wish you kept Raiden’s sleeves since the reason why they’re not the same in the first place is because one side is supposed to represent Makoto (the long sleeved side) as she wasn’t a warrior and therefore had them for traditional/ aesthetic purposes while the other side is for Ei as she needed to keep them shorter for easier movement during combat.
Great video! Just one thing, Raidens sleaves, one is short and one is long in the game and there's an explanation for this. Makoto had long sleaves and when she died while Raiden had short sleaves, she kept one short sleave for herself and one long sleave for her sister, Makoto, and it's supposed to have both her and her sister in her design. Anyways, the redesigns were amazingly done as always i just wanted to point this thing out.
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Give my boy Baizhou a redesign his clothes are just.. god.
I love how Raidens armor kind of looks like the Scaramouche boss with the dark base and the red and gold accents especially looking at raidens history with scaramouche! great designs!
I feel like the short characters look younger than they are, like Diona acts older than Klee and it feels strange same with Sayu.
If I wasn’t lied to that’s probably because diona is the oldest out of the two buttt diona does not act that mature lol.
I know no ages are canon but I feel like Diona is around 11-12, if you've done her hangout events you'll know she tries to act more adult but it comes off more as those kids who grew up too fast, which makes sense considering her story. I feel like klee is probably around the same age but is just less mature - I knew multiple girls at 10-12 y.o who acted exactly like klee did.
sayu is actually older tho, she's just rlly short, but she's always mentioned as a "young woman". I think she's probably like 15-17.
Its just a stylistic choice which imo works well, it doesn’t feel strange to me
The designs were really cute! Raiden Shogun kinda looked a little wonky in my opinion because you made her body chunky but her head was small so it looked weird, other than that they look good!
As a Wanderer main, am I legally allowed to call your Raiden "mommy"?
Okay but fr, I really love the designs you made! Diona looks so cute and I love her new color scheme. Raiden with more armor slaps and the headshot is SO pretty ugh! Edible. I will eat all of it.
I love the drawings but i just wanted to let you know that raiden has one long sleeve to represent makato bc she had long sleeves
Omg as a Raiden main I approve of your amazing redesigns have you ever thought about creating a genshin impact insert oc?
I absolutely love genshin redesigns I would get hyped if you did more! You showed Yanfei as an example in the intro, as someone who as also done a Yanf redesign I would be super interested in how you would tackle it 👀
Sth that i find interesting about raiden is that, even tho i think shes one of the prettiest charackters in the game (her hair os legit eevrything to me) i kinda found it sad that she didnt have more armour? Like she looks great, but since shes supposed to be a warrior i kinda expected more armour, so i love ur design idea :D
Honestly, i’m not a fan of the Raiden design.
So much of her outfit is tied to Makoto like for example,the more pastel colors, the long flowing sleeve on her right, the lack of armor on her right, the flower in her hair, all of this belonged to Makoto and not Ei. The current design is a combination of Ei and Makoto’s outfits with more Makoto than Ei which makes sense considering the people of Inazuma don’t know about the archon change and ,while they both ruled, Makoto was officially the archon so makes sense that Raiden would resemble Makoto more than Ei.
edit: Also, she doesn’t really need armor considering Ei lives in the plane of Euthymia while the Raiden Shogun it a puppet that can be rebuilt or changed
Kazuha being anemo and having no green on him .
Idk, considering how many characters there already is, and how many more there will be color-cordinating all of them to their element will start to get boring. I mean its not like a team uniform, u know?
*UWAAAHHH, I LOVE, LOVE, LOOOVVVEEE HOW YOU REDESIGNED DIONA!!! NGL, SHE LOOKS SUPER DUPER CUTER THAN HER ORIGINAL DESIGN! I’D DEFINITELY PULL FOR HER IF SHE HAD THAT DESIGN!!!! NEW SUBBIE
ahhhh they are absolutely stunning !!! your raiden redesign has to be one of the best i’ve ever seen! if you ever do more, can i please request yae miko?? im not the biggest fan of her, but i think her design has so much wasted potential, not to mention how it sexualizes shrine maidens, who are supposed to be dressed modestly :(
I personally think her dress fits her, Kitsunes are said to be seductive and mischievous. Thought yeah, I find it to be overtly sexy as well. Especially when the front skirt is very short.
I agree! I've seen a redesign of Miko with long pants and she looked so good!
@@sneakerdoodle0612 I mean she still could've very easily been seductive and mischievous without sexualizing cultural wear? Considering many fan designs have been able to do it I'm sure hoyo could've also figured something out.
Fun fact about Ei's Sleeves!! One of her sleeves is her original sleeve before the archon war and the other is the way her sisters was before she passed! I just randomly though about this when you were talking about her sleeves....
why does youtube keep recommending me this shit 😭
Omg your Raiden redesign is literally STUNNING. Love how the gold is softer and not a bright, saturated yellow. It looks amazing!!!
A big issue I personally have with Genshin Impact designs is that I feel like a lot of the details don't blend together in an easy to remember way. I think a great comparison is Dimitri from Fire Emblem and Dainslef, two characters who look very similar.
When I try to imagine Dimitri in my head, I think of his eye patch, overgrown blond hair, fur cloak and black armour. When I try to imagine the details coming together, I remember how his armour has a blue cross over the chest and how his fur coat has black, white and blue layers. His design shows a lot of technical detail with the parts of the armour, but overall the actual features are quite simple.
Dainslef though? Weeah. He also has blond hair of a similar length and an eye covering, and his outfit is black with a split cape, but when I think of the other details I'm kind of lost. I know there's some gold and hints of blue but I don't know where it all goes and I'm kept confused as to how the elements interact with each other.
Now this isn't to say I think all Fire Emblem designs are good and Genshin designs are bad. I definitely feel physical pain looking at the Engage designs and there are some great Genshin character designs. But what I'm trying to bring across is there's so much detail that doesn't blend together well and it's hard to remember.
I'm not saying that details can't be utilized on a design, but when so many secondary elenents are present it can be overwhelming.
I think Lumine is probably the best designed character in terms of clarity and readability. The details on her are fairy light embroidery and the gold elements aren't too overwhelming. It's gotten to the point where I just see a blond ponytail and a knee-length white dress and immediately think of her. It's a complex render but the details are simple enough to be recognised.
A really good video here on RUclips is Ross Draws's character design tutorial where he states that even for his complex detailed artstyle, it's a great idea to have a child or a non-artist try to draw your character from memory to see how well the elements integrate and how much clarity you've portrayed. And I feel so bad for any kid who's obsessed with Genshin and trying to draw the characters from memory because they're probably clutching ten different pens trying to remember what colour a character's shoulder is meanwhile the kid across from them is willing up a recognisable sailor moon in a minute.
YES... genshin speedpaint AND redesign video. content catered to me specifically i love this video and your redesigns!! i love diona's og design bc her color palette is so Calico(tm) to me and i love calicos but i much prefer the silhouette of the outfit you gave her, and i LOVE the raiden shogun's new hairstyle and body type and everything she's SO beautiful!! keep up the good work!!!! would love to see more of these..... 👀
I adore how these came out!! I so wish Diona looked like your redesign, I would've defineitly leveled her to 80 if that were the case lol (Shes currently suffering at lvl 50... or was it 60-?)
I honestly nearly callopsed hearing you don't really care for the color purple :'D Raiden quickly became one of my favorite characters and I use her second most to my main Kazuha hehe
When you teased this video on the ddlc redesign I wasn't really interested because I never played Genshin. Now I do and I'm OBSESSED with the character designs so I think your timing is more than perfect!
I'd hope you'd make a redesign of Baizhu, as much as I love that man the colors ain't it.
It’s really good, but Raiden Shogun had a long sleeve for Makoto
I actually have a Diona cosplay and I really love your redesign
Babe wake up, new inkiio video just dropped
i would honestly love to see you redesign Childe! he's one of my favorite characters and his design just..it's so plain. and boring. and not what I would expect from a hydro wielder AND a Fatui harbinger. i think you did a great job of making the raiden Shogun more intimidating and it'd be great to see something like that for childe
I love the way you draw characters! It's very inspiring and I always feel motivated to draw after watching one of your videos ^^
I love the raiden design but I think her head looks very tiny so you probably should have made her head a lil bigger lol
I don't really follow Genshin Impact, largely because I'm not really that interested in that type of game, but I do like your artwork and it's fun seeing you create from something you love. :)
I will say, seeing the examples of the short character models, I agree that the proportions are Off. I think they were trying for a 'chibi' adjacent style to have the option for cute, child-ish characters, and it ends up balancing on an uncanny valley of "Is this an adult? Is this a child? This doesn't feel right."
Probably the easiest fix would be to square off the head shape and shrink the head a smidge overall, it would feel a lot more balanced and a lot less uncanny.
For the Raiden Redisign I really liked the idea and all, but the head is kinda bothering me, it looks a little too small
love how you stayed close to the original designs. The characters are still very recognizable, and even tho i love watching re-imagining or re-designing videos, i sometimes feel like the design is completely different and you wouldnt recognize the character if the ychanged it in canon (obv wouldnt happen but ya hopefully know what i mean)
A Video Sponsored by the tablet I already have?! Nice!!!! Also, The art is amazing, as always, lmao
These redesigns are really good. I think you really did a good job designing Diona. Her clothes definitely captured more of her occupation, while still seeming personal to Diona
Words cannot describe how happy i get when this channel posts
PLEASEEE DO YAE MIKO!! SHE NEEDS A COMFY OUTFIT!! 💗💗
i was looking for something to watch in the background while drawing :D i love ur art and your channel helps give me inspo when artblocked
I feel like the character that needs a redesign the most is Nahida. She’s cute and all but she has 0 (zero!) cultural inspirations on her design. She looks like a little european fairy while she’s supposed to represent Sumeru which is hugely inspired by SWANA cultures
Honestly I both agree and disagree at the same time. I'd like to see Nahida in SWANA inspired design, but I feel like it doesn't fit the character's story? Cus she's basically been locked up and never been outside the Sanctuary of Sursthana. So I feel like being disconnected from Sumeru's culture makes sense.
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Raiden locked herself away and was arguably more disconnected from her country because at least Nahida put the effort to look after her country and people through dreams, and yet she still looks clearly Japanese inspired. If they could do it for Raiden, why not Nahida? Plus she’s meant to represent Sumeru as its deity, there’s no reason why her design should look that disconnected from the culture. At least they could’ve put her in clothes that look inspired by the cultures they took inspiration from (imo her clothes are the biggest disconnect from the rest of the region). It’s easy to wave it away as “not important” or “not befitting of the character’s story” if you’re not from those cultures because you won’t care about seeing them well represented. And forgive me for saying this but the argument that it makes sense because she was locked away is nonsensical to me, because her being locked away has nothing to do with her appearance. She was like that before the sages found her and her story would not have changed at all if she looked more SWANA inspired. If anything, her looking more in tune with Sumeru would have strengthened her story rather than detracted from it, seeing how the whole point of the story is that the sages were keeping their country from flourishing. I am from that area and while as a whole I think they did a great job with Sumeru (especially the music) and it’s my favorite region, Nahida’s design is still a bit disappointing to me despite me loving her as a character.
IN LOVE WITH THESE!!! Raidens one of my fav characters too you did her justice
I LOVE all of ur videos, I watch them as soon as they are posted! ❤
i love how you made Raiden's hair and made her body type a bit different but still fitting her
Omg!!! The redesigns are so nice!! I'm looking forward to seeing more. Diona's is just so pretty and adorable!!! 😍😍😍
is it just me that is a female and really disagrees with disliking female character designs because theyre more revealing and especially when its based off a culture?
like bro, its based on the culture, but it isnt the culture, its supposed to be slightly unique in its own way, if i wanted to see that culture unchanged i would watch a documentary not play genshin impact. the way i see it, fictional characters are a fun way to make traditional outfits more slay and thats so fun to me. i understand this may not be everyones thing, but to see people think of it just as "for the male gaze" is sad to me.
granted if it completely doesnt suit the character and/ or its done in an extremely fanservicey way, then thats a turn off, but genshin doesnt go that far anyway.
quite a bit of what i mentioned isnt from the video itself, its just a tangent i started in my head as i was watching XD
I’ve literally never playing Genshin Impact BUT because this is Inkiio, I watched the video
I've never been that into Genshin but I really enjoy the character designs. Your redesigns are amazing; keep up with the great work!
I love Raidens design, in the game and how you made her. I personally believe both of them are just gorgeous characters. I dont know why but I just love the color palate of Raiden and her outfit designs so I guess im a lil bias-
For diona she’s not just a bartender, she’s also an adventurer which is why she looks like a Girl Scout.
Your design is nice but her original design is definitely better
And your raiden design I really don’t like, she’s supposed to have one sleeve as a nod to her sister makoto, since she wore two short sleeves and makoto wore two long sleeves.
I also don’t like how you made the kimono look a lot less like a traditional japanese kimono, since inazuma is supposed to be based on japan that includes raiden, the armour makes it difficult to see the kimono part….
Also the material on the bows in the original design are a traditional accessory which are twisted to look like that, and I think it was a bad decision to remove them
Another thing: the sash looking thing worn by raiden is an obi, which are very stiff and wouldn’t bend to her body shape like in your design
The art is good but it’d be better if you paid more attention to original design and character’s purpose…
i drew in the genshin style for my uni final year project and i never realised until i did WHY ARE THE KNEES SO DAMN LOW XD XD
THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!! The redesigns are fabulous!! (This inspires me lol) (if i had to suggest a character to resign it would probably be Chongyun probably) LOVE UR ART! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
I love these redesigns! Especially Diona's one, it makes me like her more lol
I’m not completely with raiders redesign, simply cuz I think she’d be lean and muscular from fighting, but otheriwise I love it!!! And body positivity makes me want to combust /pos 🎉
I’m not sure about the armor for Raiden as she legit put a doll of herself and locked herself in a room. Also it’s kinda funny imagining her cooped up in a dark room eating anything sugary while wearing armor 💀. Honestly I think it’s just my biases I don’t really like armor (Sorry Gepard). It’s kinda regal but if there’s a fight you’re half prepared. I don’t imagine her as a more Beidou type character because we all agree that that design is incredibly similar to Beidou.
Love the redesign of the characters and your art. 💙💙💙
Let’s go! More inkiio ^-^
I’m excited about the fact that I’m excited when you upload lol
I don’t play genshin but I’m watching the video because I play Honkai Star rail and the two are made by the same company. Also I like character design
genshin character designs tend to be a bit of a mixed bag for me. the characters have really great ouffits across the board and their colour schemes are consistently a treat. even colours i don't like. ... but man, the proportions always look so cutesy, soft, young, and skinny. even characters like raiden look a little too soft for me.
i always like seeing fan artists with different styles try a hand at redesigning and i think you did well! i will ALWAYS imagine raiden with a lil beef!
Amazing drawings but in MY opinion I would have kept her thin. Also her face kinda look male-ish
As a HUDGE diona fan/ main I loved dionas look. I think everyone can generally agree she does need to look more like a bartender besides her shaker on the back. I loved the hints of blue that you did along with her proportions. The design definitely fits her feisty personality along with her bartender look. This is honestly my favorite outfit redue of diona out of all the ones I've seen (I've seen a lot). And then of course any Raiden redesign I see is always stunning.
Aahh i love this so much!😍 You did a great job!
Fun fact, im pretty sure most kimonos tend to not show the chest as much(womens kimonos) , they cover the chestwayy more (dont fully trust this though , found it on pintrest!) , but raiden isnt wearing a traditional kimono(it seems) cause even her original design shows nore than traditional kimonos ive seen!(design is still pretty!!)
As soon as i saw diona in the Thumbnail i clicked, i Love diona and its Not often that i See her anywhere else. Also great coincidence that i found this on the 18th january, Dionas birthay :D
HOW MANY LETTERS ARE IN RAIDEN EI⁉⁉⁉
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the designs are soooo cute!!! i think for me personally i would've kept raiden's different length sleeves since they have like a connection to her lore n stuff. i absolutely
The draping parts on the shogun's kimono is something that i noticed is just part of inazumain style clothes along with the bows made of rope. Just wanted to say this, nothing more :)
I have that exact model of Gaomon tablet, and aside from the colors being kinda wack (at least for me, idk how to fix it) and ALL the wires, i love the tablet so much and it works so well.
Duuude why the yaoi hands T_T
Look at your own hands
Put them over your face
They're not even as big as the front of your head
your raiden redesign is amazing! but I think her hair is a little too similar to shenhe's hair, so I would've kept the original bangs.
I absolutely love genshin redesigns I would get hyped if you did more! You showed Yanfei as an example in the intro, as someone who as also done a Yanf redesign I would be super interested in how you should tackle it 👀
Can you redesign Nahida if you haven't already? I wanna see your interpretation!!
I’d love to see you redesign MHA characters!!😅
these drawings are awesome! ❤
I love that you made raiden a bit thicker! I am a bit confused with the proportions though since you made the body thicker but kept the head the same, I think it would be more accurate if her head was a bit bigger and more accurate to a thicker body type. Overall you did amasing and I love the designs you came up with!
I think it’s their art style I’ve seen a couple of videos from them and its always small head
I love raidens so much but i think keeping the long sleeve would look cool it would look pretty flowing in the wind
its not a bad video, but its always just such a disappointment when ppl change Raidens design and kill the asymmetry and/or all parts that are actually references to Makoto. Raiden finding the balance between her and Makoto's concept of eternity is reason why she is asymmetric.
It just leaves a bad taste, because it implies that the redesign was done, without even trying to understand what story the old design is trying to tell.
Yea.. i'm not the biggest fans of genshin redesigns myself because every character design has its own story (that's usually ignored in redesigns), i mean, Diona doesn't even look like she's from mondstadt either now, i'm also personally not a fan of the tights she has (don't get me wrong, i completely agree about some cover up since this is a child character depiction, but i feel like the tights are just way out of place?)
That said i know this is for fun and for that it looks great, no hate to the artist! I myself have made a few redesigns i'd consider "bad" and unfaithful, it's a guilty pleasure of mine lol
the diona one is SO CUTE i hope when she gets her free outfir in an event thgat its the 1 u made>>
i know nothing about genshin and ive never once been interested in it but i really loved this video!!
Love your art style but am i the only one who thought it kinda looked like shenha
Raiden looks a bit like beidou not that i hate her design but it is similar to the pirate captain
ADORABLE!! makes me wanna play 👀
Have the exact same opinions on Raiden's design! She's my favorite too, and I love her color scheme and kimono patterns, but... Yeah. I tendo to draw her either straight up wearing samurai armor or ceremonial/royal kimonos more true to the real stuff, while still retaining her colors and characteristics. And yeah, also the body type - you and I shaking hands on the muscular and more body fat Raiden, and I love it! I really like how they turned out ❤️
Funny enough, my other favorite in the game is Yanfei, and I draw her wearing actual suits, like a lawyer would, all the time :P
I would like you to redesign Mika rou next!
I like your new art style!
off topic but i love ur music choices was that Wizard 101 in the background?? the nostalgia,, and the Xenoblade music at the end,, peak taste 👌
I have this tablet! I would actually like to please let you all know that it’s had a LOT of issues with my device. Firstly, it came broken and we had to return it and get a new one. Then the pen stopped working for a month, and now it constantly disconnects and I lose all of my work. I’m currently in the process of getting a new one because it’s been 2 years and this tablet just doesn’t work for me. It’s not my computer or my internet, because I only had these issues with this specific tablet and not with any other ones in the past. The screens texture is nice though, but the buttons don’t always work either. I didn’t have these issues (other then it coming broken) until I used it for a couple months. I wouldn’t recommend it based off of my experience, but if it works for you, cool!
I was fascinated by both ideas, very beautiful.
If I had to say something for possible future redesigns of Genshin, it would be that perhaps it would be interesting to take more into consideration that "Philosophy of asymmetry" that Genshin designs have. By this I mean that characteristic that these designs have, that the left side is different from the right side, either because of the way they wear the clothes, or because of the accessories they use.
Obviously you are not trying to "emulate" the style directly, so you don't have to worry about overloading the design, I think a small variation from one side to the other is enough. I loved the plate on Raiden's shoulder, but I was missing something on the other arm (or even in the leg) that made it "counterbalance" (Obviously, I'm just referring to these "Genshin designs").
But really, I really liked the idea of those outfits and hair styles, and how the illustrations turned out in the end, just that was magnificent, I love your style
What about Honkai Star Rail??🤔💗
You made them look way better !!! 👍
I rlly like your diona´s design
i literally love love loooveee ur raiden redesign!! totally agree with the armour thing, this has happened to a few other characters i cant remember rn and like.. just why 😭
ANOTHER AMAZING REDESIGN!!!!!! Defo love Raiden design - MY FAVOURITE!!! It looks amazing and she defo feels more like a warrior! I feel like Diona could had a tie of something a bit more suit like as she's a bar tender - but i LOVE HOW CUTE YOU MADE HERRRR AHAHAHA!!!! Love your vidssssss, can't wait for the next one!!!!
OMG i loved the diona redesing, i love diona she so cute HSFIKHNCFJC :DDDDD
loves from brazil 🇧🇷❤
(diona is my daughter)
ARE THOSE BALL JOINTS?? I LOVE BJD'S AND DOLL DESIGNS SM :3 personal fixation of mine