Concept 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As we can see here, I did a few experiments with the art style, when I was done with he first iteration, I asked my partner for feed back and he said: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Criticism: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt looks too feminine, the features that give this impression are the jawline, nose and the face is too close together.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n So, for my next iteration, I focused on trying to make the jawline more masculine. This is an easy fix as all I had to do was make it slightly longer and more square shaped:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concept 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I like this version of art style concept more, I took the criticisms and changed the art style and see that it has made the character look more masculine. One feature that I think that masculinised the face were thickening the eyebrows. However, I was facing another problem- this art style still looked like my art style. For a dating sim game, I wanted to go down the classical anime Otome game inspired art style. I stopped here for a while to look at this style and apply it to my work: Otome style<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once I had looked at other examples of Otome art styles and analysed their essence, I came up with this art style inspired by this look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think what separates this from the other concepts is that I find that this style usually has a harsh ring light that highlights the hair and nose, which I have evidently added here. Another stylistic choice that was made was the eyes. In most of those type of games, eyes are typically narrower which gives them more of a masculine appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Practicing Art Style Although I couldn\u2019t do much without a narrative \/ the dialogue, I still wanted to practice the possible art style of the game. In Violet\u2019s Dates, it doesn\u2019t explicitly say the art style, so I have looked on Pinterest and Instagram for ideas that will best convey the vision. Eventually, I came … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-09_015843687-1024x589.png\")
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