Design Inspiration. Abyssal is a keycap set designed and revolving around Arknights Character; Skadi.
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I decided to work with Skadi because I adore her character design and illustrations involving her as well as the story she has. Skadi in the game is a 6-star operator, but if you know a bit about the game, you’ll probably also figure out that her defense is kind of useless and she is quite tricky to find proper use for in any scenarios that don’t involve obliterating high hp enemies
SkadiSkadi is often portrayed as a very mysterious, careless and cold character based on how she acts towards others, but once you get to know her you will learn that the reason she acts in this cold unfriendly way towards others really is that she is afraid of losing the ones she cares about.
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On the battlefield Skadi is extremely efficient at fighting enemies, let that be monsters or other humans and is often described as inhuman due to her seemingly never-ending stamina and extreme power. She wields a giant sword capable of ripping anyone to pieces and all of that has led to rumors that she is not 100% human as is also explained in archive file1.
“She will more often try to execute operations single-handedly and leave her teammates to clean up her mess, which has fostered resentment. Playing off her cold, sarcastic demeanor toward others and her relentlessness in battle, a rumor has emerged that she is part-demon.”
She is often talked about in a way that revolves around the depths of the ocean.
“Down beneath the vast blue sea, below the white waves that lap endlessly at the earth, lies all that I once held dear.”
“I'll show you the dance of the depths.”
“Who knows what lurks within the kelp forest?”
“When you've made the long journey through the dark up to the water's surface”
The design process.Starting out; choosing colors based on her character design is it's own thing but choosing the proper tones, and making sure everything works well together is another thing so hopefully I can make it all work.
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Initially just after starting out I had a good idea of what I wanted from this set based on Skadi’s character design and story. The grey used for the alphas combined with the slightly desaturated but quite bright ocean blue gives the alphas a very distinctive but distinguishable look and for me they go well with Skad's character design
For the modifiers I originally started out with a lighter neutral grey, which looked great, but for one; it looked a lot like oblivion, and for two; it didn’t really feel right considering the inspiration for the set, I tried a few other grey tones, most of them being darker and ended up with a dark almost black grey with a cold blue undertone to it, which really did it for me as well as looking closer to what her normal outfit is like, and works well with Skadi since she (as mentioned earlier) is often talked about in ways related to the depths of the ocean and that stuff.
After I figured out the theme I was pretty confident in what I wanted to do for colors. Some accents that really stand out in Skadi’s character design are the blue on her clothing/hat, (previously i was also using a purple and red but those colors were voted out on the forms) for the legends i used a fairly vibrant cold blue fitting with skadis blue accent colors, where i used a grey ressembling her grey/silver hair for alphas and for the modifiers a dark cold grey.
Colors
colors are subject to change so not final at the moment
KitsBase Kit
Dark alphas
Spacebars
Novelties
Rendersrefer to the kit renders for the most accurate colorsRama u80
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Rama Koyu
Nemui
J-02
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Haus
Progress (color matching)
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i received ral k7 color book and I'm happy with how blue and dark grey/blue of modifiers look but I couldn't find a Grey that satisfied me so I'll decide when I receive pantone chips.
Collabs
FormsBase Kit/Alternative Alphas
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOy2eVnAr-2hzUFAOA3J2pTAUj9qKgDXgNO7iJpay4l7RQvg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Discord serverhttps://discord.gg/nx2BjDprbK
im going to update the thread as i make updates to the set, add more renders (:
This is a interest check so Kitting, colors, novelties, etc. are subject to future change based on response I get from Google forms and replies.
