MegasXLR - Kiva - Redesign!!

Recently, a lot of american cartoons have been trying WAY HARD to mimic anime style. I have no problem with this, generally. In fact, in Teen Titans, I do like it. In that show, they keep consistancy within itself. Nothing seems out of place, and although streamlined, the art is nice.

Now, uh, MegasXLR... as far as Mecha shows go, it's got an interesting enough storyline. Not deep, but entertaining. The character designs, tho?

It's like they got a character designer who had never drawn anime style before in their life and yelled at them to "Make it anime." Then again, they might have had expirience and did it well but had to change it. I don't know. But the characters themselves compared to the props and scenery just look weird and out of place.

Anyways, I got anal retentive and bored today, so I did a more anime-like redesign of one of the characters, Kiva. I started to redraw from scratch, but I wanted the differences with only a few changes needed to be obvious, so I traced over the very basic skeleton design of it in OC and did the rest myself, trying to follow the costume and such as close as I can. In fact, for almost all the colors on the character, I just used the dropper and used the same ones. I only used three colors where the origonal design did, and two where the origonal design did (though I'm a three-tone girl, m'self).

Might try my hand at other characters, later.

Anyways, Kiva is © ...Cartoon Network? And the art on the left is, duh, offical artwork and not mine, I just put it up here for example.

Now I go to bed before I do other bored things.