less stiff hair and reshading

[PeachyPieeee]

hello! i’d like to contribute to the mod. i’ve reshaded the front part of monika’s hair and to make it less stiff. i’m not sure how to submit a pull request for art as i have no experience in coding, but i’ll submit my contribution here. if it were to be implemented, or needs changing and more editing, please do not hesitate to use it or contact me :)

i can also recolour her lineart or shading to make it more close to the original. during the daytime and nighttime, monika’s sprite has different shadings, thus the recolouring the details of the lineart would maybe be more suitable. i’ve not yet done it, but i will do it some time later.

(original)

(demo)

(reference on how i would shade)

[kkrosie123]

Hello, PeachyPie! This is really nice looking. Is it OK to see the full version of what you would do for the bangs?

Secondly, I should just let you know, these bangs would need to be updated for every hairstyle and spritepack. If you’re alright with that, that's absolutely wonderful! Me and the rest of the team absolutely adore your edits thus far.

Excited to see what you do! Thank you for your submission!

[PeachyPieeee]

yep, no problem! i'll do my best to try to resemble the original. i'm happy to help! it just takes some time, so please bear with me .o. this is the recent piece, if you want to correct anything, feel free to add on!

i also found out that her eyes need more shadowing and red lines. i added those, i'll work on the top of her head and pony tail now. the bangs are almost done, but i'll continue to work on it too, since i'm not satisfied with them.

i kinda want to add more lines onto her, but i just found out that monika has a bad hair day, so i'll check up on that. i'd like to ask though, do you guys want me to resemble more of the original piece, or the one we are using now? such as things like the colour of her hair, due to the lighting in the original ddlc, her hair was purposely made more yellowish. or do you guys want to keep it that way or would you like me to add more of my own?

[kkrosie123]

It looks amazing so far 💕 Please take your time, so excited to see what you finish with!

[Booplicate]

@PeachyPieeee Hello, a few things I want to mention:

• Monika's sprite is based on act 3 CG, not her standing sprite. They are completely different, and to make the transition from act 3 to MAS smoother, I'd say we should aim to keep it closer to act 3 CG than her standing sprite.
• You removed some lineart, I don't know if it's intentionally, but I think the sprite looks better with it.
• I like your shading there, although I think some cel shading on the hair is still needed, don't remove all of it.
• I'm not settled on the new small strands. They make the hair look better, give it more volume, but at the same time it now looks closer to bed hair (it's messy). I don't mind that much tho if the rest of the team thinks it's ok.

Generally eyes should go to a separate issue, also unsure if we want to change them again, last time it caused a big resonance in the community. Small feedback anyway:

• This looks too thick, I don't think this highlight needs a border.
• I'm not sure why you want the eyes to be more red, I think they are good as they are right now.
• I like the grey shadow you added. I'd make it just a little more white so it's not too strong.

do you guys want me to resemble more of the original piece, or the one we are using now? such as things like the colour of her hair, due to the lighting in the original ddlc, her hair was purposely made more yellowish. or do you guys want to keep it that way or would you like me to add more of my own?

Act 3 is the base, but don't remove any fixed which have been applied other time (if there's any). Also the colour in act 3 is too red because of the comet outside, it's not present in MAS, so the current colour is the way to go.

[PeachyPieeee]

Okay. I was going to reshade some of her body (such as the hands) as well, but if I do, I’ll open another issue again .-.

Thanks for giving me a view on how to continue though!

[PeachyPieeee]

i originally worked on some of her eyes and the body lineart, which includes wider and a bit more pink eyes, but i'll revert it back to normal. i've also done her hair.

(i changed the hue a bit, i'll also revert it if it's noticeable) i'll not add any more strands to her hair anymore. i can also remove some if needed. check and see if there's something you didn't like, and if that's alright i'll change it with other sprites as well. :)

[PeachyPieeee]

mmkay, i have finished this one. i added some shading and recoloured the lineart on her body. here's the final.

may i ask how will i submit the psd file?

edit: never mind, i was on mobile, i'll upload everything within this link. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-6qK0lRxj0wuZm6dxfEMNr3Vl9AQGv7F

[ThePotatoGuy]

Standard rules for hair changes are that the changes need to be applied to all officially released hairstyles, including our released spritepacks. That being said, the team likes your final version a lot so I think we can pull some of the work to making that happen. @kkrosie123 can you work with @PeachyPieeee to get this design applied to all of our hair styles?

I tested the standard res versions and they look fine, I'll upload them to the discord later.

[kkrosie123]

Yeah, sure! There are a few bangs that may need some tweaks art-wise for application. Ie, a newer but not-yet-released low bun found in #9202 ~ there’s also the Shuchi’in Academy hairstyle, aka straight bangs, but I’m sure we could make it work.

[PeachyPieeee]

yep! thanks for giving me a chance to contribute! i also adore you guys's work :3 you can dm me at discord: peachypieeee#3566 just call me peachy!

i've also done the leaning sprite and uploaded it on the drive. send me the other hairstyles, i'll do my best to update them as well!