(please do not repost!)

damn it’s been forever since i’ve posted any art on here lmfao but anyways! here’s something that i’ve been meaning to do for a while and finally got finished, my own redesigns of the diamonds’ pearls! (and, to a somewhat lesser extent, my own interpretation of what crystal gem/white pearl coulda looked like when she belonged to white diamond before being given to pink diamond, because yeah i’m kind of a sucker for that theory lmao)

something i wanted to try doing was not only giving them unique and more-detail-oriented outfits (e.g. 4 diamonds on their outfits instead of the usual 1 or 2) (yes in case anyone’s curious blue pearl’s left arm warmer is the same as the right, it’s just hidden by the right arm lol) , but i also gave each pearl a metal trim on their see-through clothing to stand out from other pearls and make them feel like they’re for royalty since they are owned by their respective diamonds; i took inspiration from @amaet‘s mother-of-pearl ocs / au and i had them in mind as i designed each of the pearls (seriously tho, go check it out, their art is amazing)

i hope you guys like them, because i had a lot of fun designing them! now i’ll go into specifics w/ each pearl (it gets kinda lengthy so i’ll put it under the read more):

white pearl (like i mentioned before, this is more or less my own interpretation of what she could of looked like when she was wd’s pearl, so the details i’m gonna give here are a bit more lengthy)

originally i was gonna give her spiked hair and shoulder pads, but the shoulder pads felt a bit off to me and the spiked hair was difficult to draw, so i just went with no sleeves and her more-or-less normal hair but pointier and more simplified (no loose hair! only cone hair! loose hair would probably bother wd to no end lol)



i also had a hard time deciding what to give her for her shoes; there was the more-or-less the normal ballet shoes but w/ the ankle strap and diamonds on it (kinda like pilot pearl’s shoes), ballet heels, and these wedged heels; i went with the latter since they were like a compromise of the former two and something to make her more “tall and imposing” than the other three pearls



i made her signature translucent cloth a white cape, but i also went the extra mile of giving her a white bodystocking underneath her leotard/cape, because wd probably would do something that extra for her pearl (and also more simpler to draw than a translucent skirt over everything else lol)





originally i was gonna make her color palette black and white like wd, but i changed my mind and just made it pretty much the same except paler and somewhat desaturated since white pearls irl tend to be somewhat iridescent in a way (it’d be still fitting for her and wd anyways since wd claims to be “every color of the light” plus tbh it looks better on pearl anyways)

blue pearl

personally i feel that her canon design is pretty… lazy/uninspired and boring-looking tbch. her design doesn’t really fit blue diamond’s aesthetic all that much, so that was what my main focus was because i wanted to give her something less boring than just a leotard and a skirt lol



instead just a plain ol’ skirt, i made her signature see-through cloth a veil to not only fit bd’s aesthetic but also to give her sort of a “ghostly bride” vibe



the previous point is also why i made color palette a deeper blue (which really isn’t too far off when you think about it since pearls can be dyed pretty much any color)



the single-shoulder strap corset was mostly inspired by bd’s mural; the long arm warmers, layered skirt, lack of footwear, and slightly-longer (and darker) hair were just aspects that i felt that would fit bd’s aesthetic more, like i said my goal was to kind of just make her look more like she’d fit bd’s aesthetic

yellow pearl

i kinda just wanted her design to look less… horny-on-main-looking; i kinda just felt that the combination of a leotard and thigh highs were… a bit much



i also wanted her outfit to be something that would fit yellow diamond’s aesthetic more: a buttoned coat with puffy sleeves, skirt, dark gloves and knee-high socks… something to sort of give her more of a “personal secretary who can also do ballet” look



her coat and hair were mainly inspired by pilot (cg) pearl’s design, mostly just because i felt that it’d fit her



i made her color palette more like something of a golden south sea pearl’s; not only is the gold a natural color but it’s also something she probably would brag about



(this is something i did for both yellow and blue pearl but i made their gems off-centered of their chests to fit the respective placements on the diamond authority insignia; blue’s gem being on the right side of her chest, and yellow’s on the left)

