User blog comment:EtherealNyx/Design Contest!/@comment-26423188-20160614212450

Ayyy I finally took a picture! So far I've finished Atra and Tulip, so I gotta hurry up on the others!

Alright so Atra first. Uncanny valley is CREEPY. I should have never searched it up. But I'm not used to drawing that way so I found soething that works better for me: black and white pop art!

I really got inspired by translucency, layers, and grayscale here. Motifs are methods of execution, depression(because shadows symbolize that), and all around abstract. Then I got carried away and went all out crazy with black-and-white pop art and abstract art so sorry if Atra is too um.. outlandish in appearance?... Her skin is completely patterned in abstract swirls, shadows, and dots, except for her arms and torso(for no apparent reason). Her left leg mostly focuses on dots and weird squiggly plant-like shapes. Her right leg are zebra-stripes. On her face, it seems to represent tears (for depression) And her eyes are creepy af. Normal, but quite thin eyebrows. Her hair is less intensely patterned, only in stripes and small curls. Her nose is strongly shadowed, and her lips are weirdly shaped in pop-art style. Stark-white skin contrasting against the black and gray shadows.

Because Atra would be Vera's shadow, I feel like she should wear a "shadow" of era's clothing, only in grayscale. The only idea I had of Vera's clothing was fancy and fashionable so I gave Atra a somewhat Victorian-esque dress. Abstract black-and-white patterned plant-squiggles, blobs, and dots on the long sleeves and the skirt, the ruffles are white with extreme shadowing, and a lace overlay on the skirt. The corset is mainly there for looks with alternating black-and-white buttons.

You may notice the weird poncho cape thing... I was searching for nice hooded capes and came up on a poncho- cape. I turned it into a high-low cape instead, with the front crisscrossing into a Roman Armor sort of thing. It's hard to explain, but I put a small example in the corner. The roman armor epaulettes shows skulls and alternating black-and-white teardrops, and I guess they would be silver? The hood would have one small decoration, AKA a rope tied in a bow, to represent execution by hanging. Her shoes are also execution-themed, with the top being a  guillotine wrapped around her leg, the straps representing the belts on a electric chair, and a syringe as ridiculously high heels for lethal injections. Some nice tear-drop shaped bead-earrings.

Alright now the shadow form! No feet apparently Atra's shadow form is a mermaid. Most of her is a light grayish-color but darkens considerably at her mermaid tail/feet, arms, and head. Her arms are willowy, creepy, and can stretch at will(due to shadows always changing size) They are super creepy, with ultra-long pointy fingers. Her hair is very translucent at this stage. Everything is a light gray, but when passing through another, it will become darker and dakrer, and so on. It actually floats upward so she'll look very weird without her hair in pigtails.. She wears the roman armor epaulettes only with different colors. One is white with white skull and black teardrops, the other is black with white tears and white skull. A translucent-esque dress/robe/boddysuit with layers thing floats on her body, with ranom little shadowy strips floating everywhere.

Pigtails tied with ropes. Neck is tied with rope. Yup, going all out with the hanging execution. Speaking of creepy she has Herobrine eyes and white eyelashes, a still very defined nose, sparkly white teeth and no eyebrows. Also carries a rope in her hand for no reason.

Gahhh she might be kinda happyish in the picture but I predict a haughty, powerful glare.scowl on her face.

Okay my hands are exhausted and graphite-smeared so hope you enjoy her! I still can't decide which form of hers is creepier...