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The Great Debaters

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Once upon a time,
A very long time ago,
There was a close pair
of siblings of high nobility 
The rest I'll leave omitted

Nixon: do it properly!!

Hah okay nix :meow:

Here's the proper story...
Several months ago when the Treeko ship really started rolling along I was watching a rin and len music video on youtube called Childish War and I was infatuated with its charm. The rhythm, lyrics, emotion, and amazing use of color theory caught my mind and dug in. The only thing I could think was "I wish I could make something to go with this!" I seriously contemplated doing some sort of animation with all three of them (cade obviously being the referree between his siblings as they have this epic japanese rap battle)
It's the song that inspired fríða's personality for the most part (as is probably clear if one watches the video for Rin's lines) though there were a few other influences from random shows and the like. It also started my curiosity into color theory. Now, I haven't had much of a chance to mess with color since during the school year I don't have enough time to go all out on my art. The exception to that is art projects for art class. When I heard we were going to do an independant project for our last assignment of the year I knew immediatly that I wanted to do something inspired by music since I often think of ideas for artwork when I'm engaged in the lyrics of a song I like. It was all a matter of picking which I'd go with
I had several ideas that I could do but then I remembered that I wanted to try out some things with color theory and all of my other ideas would have been black, grey, white, and red which aren't... colorful... enough...
so then I remembered this, the idea I thought I would have to abandon due to a lack of time. Sure it's not an animation and I might re-visit this song later due to its relavance to the characters but I couldn't resist!

Now to explain the other things

Mjá - The icelandic otomotopea for a cat meowing. Why did I repeat it four times? it was to mimick the "yai yai yai yai"right before the big climax of the song. Since yai translates roughly to 'hey!" and is used as a sort of filler word to encenuate that they're still debating, I felt like if the two of them had been cats instead of humans in the song they could have used "nya" for that part and given it the same effect. Why Icelandic? these two are kiddos of Treff and Treff is "icelandic" or whatever the equivalent may be in the pokeverse. Thus the babus are also icelandic and would probably mew as such.

Font - I tried as hard as possible to mimmic the character style of the japanese text in the video, it took me several tries to come up with something I liked. I'm sorry if the 
á looks like an ó, I promise you that the boxes are indeed in a line on purpose

Cade - ¿Dónde está? I owe you a pretty drawing pica, pester me about it incessantly once school is out m'kay? I didn't necesarily draw this for anyone in particular besides myself but I know I draw these two a lot and I need to give more love to the other members of this family. Mayhaps I will draw Nikko too since I haven't for a while 'v' we'll see.

Blue - there is more blue in this palate than there was in the video, but I feel like their designs demand for more blue to be included in the composition. Fun fact, there isn't any black or white in this picture which is something totally foreign to me and I kinda like it~

Title- obvious movie reference to something we watched in class (I have yet to see the ending) I like the way it sounds.

In the end I really loved doing this and I hope to do more fun color things in the future!
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DonutTreeXD's avatar
This is so cool looking
Wow