The Shampoo Squad's Glow-up Extravaganza (Patreon)

ah, i meant to post this last week.... but i didn't, and then i wanted to finish the e5 updates before i did... i thought i'd have them done saturday. heck. gosh frick it!! darn-tootin' !!!!

a-anyway i finished the e5 stuff but i don't have a sweeping list of updates to post this time so i'll hold off for now. instead, uh, let's do this-- let's go piece by piece!

y'all have already seen vero!

...voi!

let's get the others you might've already seen out of the way!

first up, Ari!

you can see my commentary on them in the stream replay here, but tl;dr i wanted to fix the mug's pose, give a little more depth to the hair, and accentuate the silhouette in the battle sprite!

the end result:

next up, our other stream, the favorite pick decibel!

y'all really didn't notice that their neckpiece was always a starlight reference <3

once again, you can watch the process on the stream replay! 

as with ari, we get a better mug pose, add some depth to the hair, and for this one i mainly wanted to clean up and clarify the detail on their design. like the starlight thing.
teehee.

okay, now the new reveals! we'll start with alice!

really, she's not so bad! we'll lead with the mug sprite this time because it's really only shading changes and clean up. i added a hairpin because i felt like she needed a little more Flavor

... but there's an issue with Alice-- always has been, actually. if you look above, you can see her hair swooshes to her left on the VS sprite. but in the battle sprite (and the overworlds, it swooshes to the right). most people probably don't care, but it Bothered me. I didn't want to fix the overworlds, so i tried fixing her VS sprite. didn't work out. turns out alice lives and dies by her hair swoosh. so we fixed it for the overworlds and battle sprite instead, and honestly?
girl, it looks so much better in that direction on the battle too. 

kuro's next!

not my favorite shading on the above, and i'm really trying to cut down on the number of protags who walk around showing only one eye. i still do that too sometimes, it's not just a phase mom, but i think we could get some more eye contact going here.
the all white is a power move, but also it draws way too much attention to the pants, so that went too. 

darker pants! we are not competing for attention up in here! he also got a cool lil' necklace! everyone deserves cool lil' necklaces.

had time and a half with the hair shading on this one, but i suppose that's normal. gotta shade shampoo great to stay groovin'.

finally, our other favorite protag, lucia!

my personal favorite too, unfortunately everyone who's ever seen her backsprite knows her hair is a mess. it's not great on the front either-- eye contact, darling! confidence! she's going to need a hair cut in addition to the shampoo. 

the battle sprite is actually not too different! the attempt at dreads were good here, but they didn't work in any of the other sprites. instead, we're going to wrap them up into the strands in the front and clarify them as braids! at a bit of shading, show the eye, and bam--

girl finally got the hair out her face and it is ready to fight !!!

i hope everyone is able to appreciate their protag-of-choice's clean ups! this will be posted publicly next week. in the mean time, expect some other news about the shenanigans we're getting up to~