so i legit got this ask a near full year ago and come back to it mulling it over now and then, and i still don’t really know the answer to it!! i know with the twins, i wanted to include facial features of indigenous mexicans (specifically i went with maya peoples) and i had a few inspo-faces to draw from early on.
i also wanted to keep their hair dark (i could never picture them as blonde for some reason?) and sort of wavy or curly. writing this now, i come to the realization taako in his short hair surfer look just has my hair… so maybe i did that subconsciously lmao.
with lucretia, i first drew her in the stolen century as young!luc. i wanted her to be kind of small, wallflower-like as her personality was described, not a whole lot super eye-catching or noticeable about her. old!luc i wanted to be a lot more ornamental/regal looking, so her clothes and hairstyling got a fancier.
beyond that.. i don’t really have any insight to why i go with certain designs, the process is opaque even to me… i don’t know how i choose certain clothes or proportions or anything, a lot of time i kind of just improvise.
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