Bunch muncha cruncha redesigns

Spookie here!! Got a bunch of redesigns of some old ocs of mine I thought i'd share.

Emerald

first we have Emerald!! This oc is about 3 years old. I made her back in 2019 and she was one of my first ocs. I still find doodles of her in my supply/storage shelf sometimes. I think i've improved a lot since I made her. God i hope

For her redesign all I wanted to do was make her hair darker. Thats literally the only thing I had in mind going into it. And instead I basically burned her old design and made her a new one from the ashes lmao.

I think it turned out really good! Her colors fit together better and i feel she fits the show's idea of an emerald far better than her old design. Plus, I really hate drawing dresses.

Which brings us to one of my only ocs with a dress.

Honey Opal

Honey was probably the first Steven Universe OC I ever hyperfixated on. I made her as an adopt and gave her a few different drawings so that I could up my chances of selling her for real money, and then... I had to keep her. I'm so glad I did. My personal headcanon for opals is that they're an expensive form of entertainment that are known for their dancing and unique, elegant forms. So technically.... She was part of my first ever species.

I've wanted to redesign Honey for SO LONG. Her dress design irks me and I felt her colors were kind of gross instead of the vintage look i was going for when I made her. Going into the redesign, i wanted her to keep the same sort of dress with better fitting colors and a better representation of the way i see Opals.

I have to it I love her new design. It might be my favorite of the bunch. Just because I've been using her for all these years and she finally got the new colors she's been due... I feel like she doesn't look muddy anymore, her dress makes more sense, she has more of an elegant, upstanding feel, and she LOOKS KIND OF LIKE A PEARL !!!! Which really shows how i see opals !!! Her long sharp nose and her appropriately colored sleeves make her design so much more palatable. That extra touch of Bronze just makes her so much more pleasing to look at.

Madam Purple Obsidian Geode and Nebula Pearl

Seeing as one belongs to the other, it's only fair to group them together.

Obsidian was a design I made in 2020 when I was trying to figure out how to make a species on my own!!! She was a character based on the concept of a geode, who's gem is split into several pieces where their body disconnects. This was the basis for my Synthetic species of today, and even the inspiration for defective Sapphirines, which are my most popular species (once again thank you guys so much i cannot believe the love my silly gremlins get) by far. In my canon she is the only obsidian geode that exists.

Nebula is her Pearl. When I made him he was a woman because I didn't even know you could make male gems at the time. He was her personal companion and another one of my original pearl ocs! His old ref shows a stoic, stone expression, which was because of the idea I had that for Obsidian he never showed emotion but in truth he was the most bubbly pearl you could imagine. Sweet and very sensitive, loving of his owner, and a general baby.

As you can see, Geode was a pretty good design from the beginning for me. I didn't want to change much about her at all. I just wanted her colors to fit together a little more, and fix the messsssss that was her hairdo. I didn't need to give her a new design; just a new reference.

Obsidian really had the most change in her hairstyle and the transparent cuts of fabric she had laid over her. SHES SO MUCH MORE HOMEWORLD-Y NOW!!! The drills really just needed that touch up and she came into her own!! The only messy parts of her are her geode sections, which is perfect and exactly how it should be.

Nebby changed MUCH more than Purple. For one, he looks more like her, for another, no more translucent skirt. I have to it something... I hate translucent fabric on gems. It's just not for me. It makes sense, but I still hate to draw it, and now that it's gone, it feels so much more like my design!! Something i would enjoy drawing!!

I'd really like to know what you think!! Which redesign do you think turned out the best? I think my personal favorite is Honey <3<3 But i want to hear your thoughts!!

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