Yorkie Corder Reference

Since I've already discussed Yorkie as a character in other places (see link below ;)) I'll take the opportunity to instead talk about my thoughts going into designing her.

I originally made her when I was 11, and my idea going into making her was just everything I found cool at the time. Her bangs covering one of her eyes was the idea of cool to me at that age, and I had seen some plaid boots at a shoe store before and thought they looked soooo fashionable. Hillariously, I named her Yorkie because I liked Yorshire Terriers a lot at the time.

Fast forwarding to 2019 when I revamped her design though, I obviously decided to keep a lot of these traits. In honor of how I had designed her initially, I added a lot of things I thought were cool (tattoos, leather jackets, lots of earrings, etc). Otherwise I just styled what she already had in a way I thought was cute or fun. I enjoyed bringing her pink and white stripes down onto some thigh highs, and changing out her plaid boots for some shoes I now think are fashionable (which in this case are New Rocks). Since I can draw more than one body-type now, I had to decide on that, and I landed on this curvy look. You can't see it in the outdated references to the right (because they're drawn in a chibi style), but often when I was younger and would draw Yorkie she would have big boobs. Supposedly this is common with puberty age kids, after all you're very aware of boobs existing around that time. Since I didn't have much else to work off, I decided to make that something identifiable about her body shape. I enjoy drawing her tummy.

Speaking to where her fashion sense has landed in general, when I'm making outfits for Yorkie I often think about a balance of (traditionally) ""masculine"" and ""feminine"" traits. She'll often wear very shapeless tshirts (which are understandably neutral) or things vaguely punk adjacent (mirroring her adjacency to Bolton and the band). Her favorite color is pink, and when she's putting in an effort to dress up she likes dabbling in hyperfeminine fashion, but it always has a twinge of noncomformity to it.