r/Eve • u/Armarlio Cloaked • 9h ago
Art Chibi Dreads
TL;DR - Chibi Eve ships are fun to draw!
The other day I was asked to design another alliance logo where one part of it was to draw some “Chibi Capitals". Never done anything like that before, so I watched some tutorial videos on how to do it and gave it a try. Turns out they are really enjoyable and take so much quicker to draw over my usual Eve artwork. What was supposed to be a small Sunday project has turned into 3 days lol
Zirnitra - Took around an hour to do because of how flat a lot of the surfaces are and not a lot of details compared to the others, very easy to “Chibify”.
Revelation - Was the first one I drew and took around 2 hours. I’d say it was the easiest to do as getting the overall shape was pretty easy to achieve.
Moros - Took me around 2 hours but I’m not sure how I feel about this one, as it’s fat, round and stubby anyway and I honestly still can't tell if I did it too close to the original or if the Chibi style worked out well.
Phoenix Navy Issue - This one took around 3 hours to do as there were a lot of details on it and the digital camo pattern took forever!
Naglfar - This one was a pain to do, and took me around 4 hours. Getting the proportions correct while trying to keep the same look at the original without going much into the chibi style was troublesome and then again it has loads of details on it.
None of these would have been possible without the awesome work from T’Amber with his new fancy website - caldariprimeponyclub.com. It’s so amazing and you should definitely check it out! You can fit ships out, add weapons, change the skins, background, toggle animations and even make your own SKINR designs and pull them directly off the in-game Paragon store AND much more!
All the feedback I’ve gotten after showing these to various people have all come back pretty positive and everyone thinks I should make them into stickers. So if CCP permits me to do so, and I can find a cost effective way for making them; I might have these up on my store page. Fingers crossed!
What do you guys think? Should I continue this series?
Cpt Armarlio o7
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u/Antzsfarm 9h ago
Low settings graphics mode should be like this.
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u/Armarlio Cloaked 9h ago
I wish! I played on potato-mode for 15 years until I got a new PC.
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u/Interesting_End1350 5h ago
We do what we must. I'm playing on potato mode myself, because my laptop suuuucks.
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u/invisusira Pentag Blade 8h ago
nice to see you branching out from just tracing screenshots, the zirn is cute af!
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u/OklahomaHoss 7h ago
You keep using the word Chibi. I have no idea what you're talking about.
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u/Armarlio Cloaked 7h ago
Taken from Google - "Chibi is a Japanese slang word that means "short and small" in anime and manga featuring cute characters with oversized heads and tiny bodies."
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u/Interesting_End1350 5h ago
I will give you money for these. These would be perfect as stickers.
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u/Armarlio Cloaked 5h ago
Let's hope CCP lets me!
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u/Interesting_End1350 4h ago
I'm not an expert on IP theft and all but are these not different enough from the original designs that you would not need permission?
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u/Armarlio Cloaked 4h ago
I'd still say they are close enough to the originals. I already have a merchandise licence with them, but I think currently it only covers posters specifically. Will have to ask them tomorrow.
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u/thunderbird89 Caldari State 2h ago
Ooohhh, these remind me of the old series of EVE Online shipgirls, like 15 years back!
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u/dansi21 Combat scanner 9h ago
I will 100% buy these as stickers