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COSMIC COUTURE! 🪐
💫 Rainbow High’s prestigious elective program, known for accepting only the best of the best and responsible for the creation of some truly out of this world style! All entrants are double majors, with at least of these being fashion design but there are no limitations on the other major, as we find it allows for some truly out of the box thinking! Please welcome the cohort of 2023 💫
Please enjoy everyone! If you've been wondering why my pony art has slowed down somewhat, this is why! Cosmic Couture is my BIGGEST project to date, it took a whole SEVEN MONTHS from beginning to end and I’m very pleased with it, even though it nearly killed me haha.
I hope you guys can enjoy these cosmic characters as much as I had fun designing them!
Click on the spoilers to see their full art + details (I didn't want to make the page too difficult to load as there are a LOT of images haha) 💕
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loginTERRA GALILEI 🌏
My very first design, the start of it all and one of my personal favourites!
Terra wound up with a sort of a recycled-grunge style, which I leaned into as I figured out her design. All of the designer pieces she wears are well over a decade old (some more like two decades lol), as it’s meant to be like she’s thrifted them over the years, but she also sports upcycled and handmade pieces, my favourite is probably her pull tab choker 😅
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Marchita’s design came to me very easily – and I hope you guys can under my reasoning behind giving her a wolf cut 😅
My other favourite design aspect is her leg – it’s designed after Roman leg armour and whilst it wound up being mostly covered in her main outfit, you can check it out in whole on the details page below
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Another character whose design fell into place super easily, the hardest part was actually figuring out the multiple layers of transparency on her pants 😅
It’s not super visible but she has a median sternotomy (open heart surgery) scar – which is kind of hinted at in her bio and ties into something I wasn’t able to fit in said bio – she and Marchita are childhood friends, having met whilst they were both in the same children’s hospital 💕
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Ariana’s design actually took quite a bit of effort! She kept turning out too monochromatic and I couldn’t get her silhouette down for AGES!
Those shoes, her quote and her pose are both a reference to a certain blue blur – and in fact all of the poses for this series are references 😅
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I always knew I wanted Juniper to be a performing arts focus, which in turn influenced her outfit choice – I wanted something a little dramatic!
Her feather top required me to make a custom brush, as did the jacket on her second outfit, and her feathery boots 😅
Much like the god her planet is named for, Juniper is the ‘leader’ of the Cosmic Couture group (there’s not really an official’ leader but the other girls tend to look to her for guidance lol).
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Another character I struggled with, I knew I wanted Cynthia to have a sort of cyber Y2K look but it took a while to figure out haha, the answer ended up being ‘layering’ 😅
I am WAYY too proud of the holographic look of her second pair of shoes, I did that myself! And it looks decent?!
She’s the younger sister of another of my RH OCs, Selene Armstrong, and if you can guess her inspiration you might also be able to ascertain her future romantic interest 💕
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So Soleil was actually the character I struggled with THE MOST, I seriously went through 5-6ish designs for her before I figured out what I wanted her character to be!
I would up taking influence from Helios/Apollo with their chariot = horses, so Soleil wound up being a horse girl haha, or at the very least Western influenced!
Her fringed jumpsuit also took like 3 attempts to draw…! 😅
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Shabana’s design story is interesting as whilst I had an idea in mind, ‘Saturn’ is a bit hard to distill into a character, as for most people the most recognisable bit is just the rings 😅
She definitely has those down, but I also looked to astrology to influence her personality – not sure how it comes across in my attempt to convey characterisation with as many puns as possible but she’s meant to be a chill ‘older sister’-type character 😅
(Also point to anyone who knows why I included those glasses!)
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I was probably looking forward to designing Narelle the most, as I love working with ocean motifs! She also has one of my favourite makeup looks out of the girls 😅
Her personality wasn’t something I thought of straight away, but I eventually went with the sort of beach-bum chill type persona. I also took inspiration from Sailor Moon’s DiC dub, and made her and Cordelia cousins – not ‘cousins’ but actually related (their mothers’ are sisters) as a fun reference 😅
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Right from the get-go, Cordelia had the most obvious motif/s, what with Uranus being a sky god, so I quickly filled up a mood board for her 😅
She’s one of the most monochromatic characters in the lineup, but I think it suits her personality, she’s eccentric like that 😅
Also despite her hair style looking deceptively simple, it took like FIVE attempts to get it right…!
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Lucky last, Venetia! Ironically, I actually somehow FORGOT to do Pluto when I was at the concept art stage, it was only when I was drawing their FINAL art that I realised she was missing! 🤦♀️
I didn’t forget her at the moodboard stage though, so I went and designed Venetia super late into production 😅
Nonetheless she turned out as one of my favourites, which might be due to all of the sparkle on her but also other elements I thought would be pretty cool references like her three-headed dog bag and pomegranate aril (seed) earrings 💕
🪐 I hope you enjoy this series! 🪐
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