so definitely a little random, but i have a long running personal project for miraculous, and along with it, i’ve redesigned characters I think deserve it. either because i don’t like their design, or i think they can be improved. so, starting off, we have marinette!

i tried to incorporate more of the asian feel in her character, something i know many of us in the fandom wish we can see. i understand she is half asian, so she’s not exactly going to look as asian as sabine or kagami, but i hope at least giving her sabine’s eye color was a good enough change. to add to that, i also tried to research traditional clothes. i know marinette isn’t going to parade around in a traditional dress, so i tried to get a marinette-branded look more or less inspired by traditional dress– something i think marinette would make herself. thusly, she wears a more modern kimono jacket with floral embroidery. i’m not entirely sure if her shoes are actually similar to traditional shoes, but i think the inspiration is there.

also, when i finish adrien’s, i can discuss her color palette more in-depth, because of how marinette and adrien’s color palettes are supposed to be inverses of each other.