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Evelyn Rework - Comparison — Description

So for Evelyn. New one on the left and old on the right.

The main reason why I started to think about reworking her, which then cascaded into planning and reworking all of my characters, was the hair. The old hair, while pretty, had issues when her head was bent or turned too much. Even at reasonable amounts. While they were often fixable, it usually took quite a while to do and it started to be quite frustrating, even to the point that I specifically used another character in a render instead of her. Which is quite a bad sign. The new hair, I think it's reasonably similar, but fresh. And works much smoother.

Another big difference is her left eye. As explained in the profile, it's not actually blind as Elise managed to intervene before it was too late. It did however leave the eye looking like that, as Elise wasn't quite quick enough to save it's appearance as well. I think this was an important change because I wanted that the accident that shaped quite a lot of Evelyn as a character left somekind of mark. Before, the accident didn't really have any real signifigance and there was no way to have even a clue that something like that had happened to her. Now it's pretty apparent from the first glance, whatever it was "something happened to that girl".

The last bigger change is her slightly darker skin tone. And the reasoning behind it is that she spends a lot of time outside so she gets a tanned a lot more. Now tans don't work quite like that IRL (unless she's doing a lot of tanning nude, which hey I'm sure she wouldn't mind xD) but given how her magic revolves around light and sun (pun intended) as well as how she spends her freetime, I felt like it would make sense that she's slightly tanner than her sisters. And as for why Dawn isn't as tanned as Evelyn, given that she spends time surfing and exploring, Dawn still studies indoors extensively as well, so she's not as much outside as Eve.

Besides those, I also added a little bit of freckles on her face, as well as some physique adjustments here and there.