I am pretty underwhelmed by the imagery chosen for the novelties. There is a lot of imagery to choose from when it comes to Irezumi and American traditional tattooing and I don't think this set pays proper homage to it. There are plenty of other subjects being left out. For Japanese traditional, things like snakes, dragons, flowers, koi, Japanese mythical beings, and heroes from Japanese folklore are some of the most popular subject matters. NONE of that is being represented here. I also see no good representation of American traditional tattooing in the design of the keyset. The lady face desk mat is the only obvious thing from my eyes that relates to American traditional. Some things that could be presented in the novelties that represent American traditional: ornate daggers, anchors, roses, horseshoes, stars, hearts, etc.
American and Japanese traditional tattooing are known for their boldness and heavy utilization of black and greys. Black and grey are used to make the colors that are used stand out. How do red legends on a blue keycap reflect that? it just makes the alphas hard to look at. You would never see red and blue touching like that in tattooing without some black in between them. Having them together like that is just wrong.
Also, to not have the KATakana kit and have katakana alphas instead of hiragana seems like a huge miss.
I would strongly suggest you go back to the drawing board with this. Sorry to be harsh, but American and Japanese tattooing have a very strict set of rules and imagery they use, so this set should reflect that.
Hi, as an east Asian person I have to say, please just stop using these "oriental" fonts for your ICs. It's off-putting to look at to say the least, which doesn't help sell this product to me (and people like me).
Noted on your rebuttal to the criticism above. However, if you're already working with so many constraints, why not keep your concept to either Japanese OR American Traditional tattoos? I feel that as this IC stands, you're not doing enough justice to either of them.
Also, I think despite only getting to work with two colours, not getting to have an outline, etc, you can still rework the colours to make this set look more thematic, or just more attractive in general.
combination of alphas colours is a bit blinding and does not really convey the supposed theme, but I like the novelties simply due to the amount of effort put in. That being said aren't we missing some dragons for tattoos?
GLWIC!
I really like the vivid color combo. The daruma theme is fun.
Anyone using anything other than 6.25U or 7U spacebar has no choice but to use accent spacebars. I personally like using accent/contrasting spacebars, but I know many feel strongly against that. So I'd recommended having a spacebars kit in the blue of the alphas.
Really love the red on blue alphas. Wish the whole set was that combo plus icon mods personally. Really blinding but honestly awesome if GMK Bento R2 showed anything. Otherwise cool stuff imo. GWLIC I will be looking forward to GB.We've got samples on the way for the different combos and we're pretty confident people will be happier with how they turn out in person. From there we'll figure out what we need to do with the renders and so on to represent it as accurately as possible.
Also where’s the 40s kit? Smh the disrespect.
what is the story of the theme, i see devil novolties