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Whew! I'm on night shift now plus an extra weekend job which overlaps Fridays so my time for creative is just little bits in between sleep and work or this would have been done much earlier.
I thought I'd also share my thoughts on trying to mimic some (but not all) of the styles.
Fractal: Pretty easy to make her style recognizable - circle eyebrows and elongated features plus a touch of acid. She was my first mimic attempt so it was also the first more furry Nem.
Toxoglossa: Tricky. I don't know why he was one of the few that I felt the need to add the coloured blush for. I think Toxo was the first one that I really needed to limit how many lines I used to capture his efficiency of character. That's no stealth criticism - I find it's much harder to create efficient character designs that still look good and are capable of delivering story.
APPLES: Surprisingly easy, but by this time I had relaxed a lot and the mimics were becoming easier. Apples also has great efficiency of design that reminds me of old-school animation, and more or less required the use of colour to convey properly. Nem is indeed freaking out over her off-panel penis.
RML: Tricky again, for similar reasons as Toxo. RML has an incredible sense of effective linework. Once I recognized how RML utilized space, shapes and efficient, strong lines I was able to punch out the drawing pretty quickly and it's one of my favourite results. I had to study how she did the three cats in Coxwette (all with very different personalities and designs) and see which animal features she left to know how to do Nem.
Lawyerdog: Some people said I didn't do Nem gritty enough, but that's as gritty as Nem can look in my opinion. I had to learn how he handles the feathered line look.
Lagotrope: I have to admit I was pretty lost at how to do Nem in Lago-style which is why I'm not very happy at the end result.
Limebreaker: Lime was pretty easy to mimic for obvious reasons, I just needed to study how he handles eyes and hair. Then it was just a matter of making Nem shocked at her super huge boobs and a massive new dong.
Lonelyworld: Surprisingly difficult to mimic his linestyle. I had to use a really different pen and even then I'm not sure of the end result.
Chigui: There are a few people who use multiple styles depending on context, including Lonelyworld and Lucid, but Chi stood out the most for me since she seemed to have at least 3 different styles plus one more for her web comic. I was really lost on this one.
Lucid: Very tricky to do as he uses both furries and humans with different styles based on context and I still don't think I captured it very well.
Huckbein: Same difficulties as I had for Lagotrope. I really couldn't find much in the way of Nem-like characters to base things on.
Floatrand: Tricky, but once I settled on one of his quests to use as a base it was easy to punch out and I really liked the result.
IdiomAlpha: Idiom has what I consider to be a really gothic style and she seems to like starting with basic shapes and then adding complex linework. I referred to her Servant quest due to Nem's faerie-tale world and this was the result.
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