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I recently finished redesigning Tombstone, & updated their reference sheet accordingly! (& plan on lightly touching up Graves’ design soon too! Mostly his face shape & maybe eye size!)
For anyone wondering why I changed their design (since I think folks really liked their 1.0 design, looking at how many people drew them during Artfight in 2023!), it’s because their old design didn’t fit the type of story Tombstone is a part of! It was just a bit too “lighthearted/cartoony,” & the story they’re a part of isn’t quite as colorful or fun as that initial design seemed to suggest.
Plus, I came up with a lot of ideas for Tombstone since I made their initial reference sheet (looking at things by tilting their head like a bird eyes on the sides of their head, the ghost markings acting as an intimidation tactic via displaying their tail sorta like a peacock, a much plumper body type, part of their head being furred similarly to how some Turkey Vultures look with little hairs/feathers darkening the back half of their heads, & the marking around their face is meant to be a similar shape/outline to a mink’s skull’s eye socket & upper jaw!)
So, instead of looking like a fluffy ghost-dragon-weasel, they now look like a fluffy & chunky harbor seal-weasel with a furred cobra hood tail! I think they look a little more like Graves’ Shadow Mount (the muted teal Dullatroll standing between Tombstone’s front & side profiles in the first image above!) without the horns since Graves doesn’t have any horns either & they’re now a darker grey, which matches Graves’ fur color values better!
(I actually had to make Tombstone’s new tail out of paper to understand how it & the ghost markings look when it’s relaxed!)