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INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #39: GLOVE.

“I’ve always really liked ornate, magical gauntlets in video games. I don’t really know why. Maybe because it’s an area of the human form, an article of clothing, that usually doesn’t have a lot of ornamentation to it. Gloves in the real world tend to be more plain, I’ve noticed. Probably because they need to be more utilitarian, either protecting the wearer while performing manual labor or retaining warmth. In either case, the hands still need to function and be nimble and stuff. I think people prefer to have attention drawn to other areas, too, like a cool shirt or coat, their overall body shape, their face, etc.
Designing layers, shapes, silhouettes, and textures, then tossing in some magical, glowing gems hinting at the powers imbued to the wearer, is appealing to me in a pair of gloves. I think it partially stems from playing Diablo 2 so much, eons ago. It had an addicting feature where you could find armor and weapons with random qualities and abilities either by killing monsters, opening chests, shopping at merchants, gambling, or crafting. There was a unique thrill to dispatching an enemy and watching for the colors of the names of loot hitting the ground, which hinted at its quality and magical properties. Things would look plain in your inventory until you had them identified, then the art would change to something special, and you’d see the list of cool stuff it could do. No other game has quite captured that feeling in the same way, even subsequent versions of Diablo.
Anyway, magic gloves are cool, especially ones with glowing gems and elemental powers. I’ve long had an idea for a game that involves customizable, elemental gauntlets that maybe I’ll flesh out some day (or adapt into a comic). I do think I need to make myself some cool gloves, though (with the glowing, but sadly minus the magic unless someone knows of a good tutorial…).”

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