Isi Dawndancer reimagined
I need to preface this by saying I am NOT a good artist so it’s a mess but I just wanted to get my idea out. I am also Ojibwe so I wanted to reimagine Isi as an Ojibwe character. I was really inspired by strawberries and they are called Heart berries in Ojibwe so I wanted to include Ode in her name so I chose Odelia. I decided to make her trans because only male deers have antlers but I also wanted her to have antlers that kinda formed a heart shape. I was inspired by a ribbon skirt I saw at a powwow so I gave her it. I decided to include ribbons in a lot of aspects of her design because I wanted more colour (I went VERY overboard with it…) but because it adds more to her design and I love flowy elements. Unfortunately I had too much colour and it drew too much attention to the skirt so I had to give her really colourful makeup to balance it out and she looks really messy but um yeah! I wanted to include a lot of hearts in her design as well so some of her spotting on her fur is heart shaped. I gave her some beaded jewellery and a braided leather bracelet. Her design was inspired by a lot of things I saw growing up especially the leather bracelet since I used to have to wear them to help with my anxiety.