The Making of Ruby

October 3rd, 2008 by Auriea

Well, well, well, now we’ve come full circle. She’s the one you’ve seen the most, if you’ve been paying attention round here. But what do you *really* know about dear Ruby, eh? “You think you know me?” as she is fond of saying with a sneer (okay, at least in my imagination.)

When we had to decide which character to make first, I said it immediately, Ruby is the one! Through working out her character and style we solidified what all the characters would be…. how can I say, Before her, we had no idea what we were making. Ruby helped us figure all of it out. What’s more, she’s the girl who, for me, totally epitomized what I felt about my time growing up. What happens to her, could have happened to me. She’s like a friend I never had but still remember… or a long lost sister of my dreams…. Anyway, all that is to say, she’s been through a lot during the long process of getting here. To a final image.

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The process started with lots of looking around on the Internet for images and inspiration. I found her absolutely in the short skirts and red knees of Fuco Ueda’s girls and the undulating necks of Audrey Kawsaki’s fantasies, pretty and distant. But, what kind of girl was she? Had to figure that out. Then I sketched around on paper and in computer til I had her.


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Ah, nostalgia ;)
There are the usual beauty shots of her in the gallery, and some other things will be showing up on flickr. I made a strange and unusual image of her for your desktop, hope you like it!


9 Responses to “The Making of Ruby”

  1. b

    … ((((((( there is a black cat around her, somewhere,
    the anomal leg… that´s superb,

    .

  2. Wildbluesun

    EWLHTL.

    ETHWEOLTUEW.

    IT’S A SUICIDE NOTE.

    I emphasis with this character way too much. Goddammit. ARCHETYPES! See too much of myself in them…haha. At the end of it all I’m a girl growing up.

  3. and Ruby doesn’t kill herself either.

  4. yes!! ruby!! yay!! darn i was grounded for no reason nd didnt get the updates =[ =[ =[
    but yay!! <3

  5. PBB

    Very nice job.
    She sure is the creepy one.

  6. Wildbluesun

    “and Ruby doesn’t kill herself either.”

    Good on Ruby.

  7. Irleman

    I have to confess this is the site I visit at most nowadays…
    And I never regret it!!! We finally got to meet Ruby! Two more to go!

    By the way… I know you guys are crammed up to your necks with work, but it would be great if the posts could be a liiiitle more frequent. Perhaps with news/links/videos regarding the other girls, or the game per se.

  8. One more to go, actually. One more of the Red Girls, that is. But several more other characters. Though we won’t be making those pubic in the same way.

    Yeah, we wish we could post more regularly. But as you guessed, we’re very very busy. We’ll do our best. :)

  9. Hey Ruby,
    Beautiful girl and really nyce post.
    Thanks.

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