Nishijou Takumi Redesign Attempt

Cutting my teeth on some character design after a long while. For practice, I chose an already established, beloved character from Chaos;Head.

While I love the Visual Novel and appreciate its art (especially Rimi’s design), what irked me the most about it was the cognitive dissonance in Takumi’s VN design – he was written as a paranoid loner who often does overnight gaming, but his art is very clean and handsome (even heroic) despite frayed hair. The anime’s design (both in C;H and C;C) amended this slightly by adjusting his expressions, but I thought more could be done with this design,

So here’s my attempt at VERY ROUGHLY redesigning the character. However, I gave myself two challenges for it:

Try to stay true to the “written” design as opposed to the “drawn” design, and show his personality in the drawings alone.

Change the style sufficiently for more expressiveness (this should help give me some practice for another project I’m working on).