Diana

About

Diana is a complicated character. First sketch of Diana is the first time Redencon attempted to draw some original character doing something instead of just trying to replicate some other pictures. (Replicate without tracing, which was quite a challenge in measuring and fixing). In a way Diana was mascot for Redencon themselves, but she never was intended to be used as alias or representation. It's just the composition of a all the things Redencon thought of self at the time. As a result Diana is caffeine-addicted, permanently sour-mooded, both sad and strict with other characters. Perhaps Diana's appearence is the reason why Redencon attempted art in the first place - to give place for some inner anxieties to be outed.

For a long time Diana remained a past character. Redencon acquired other representative personas and the most Diana had appearence as was a character in a small story. This story added "teacher" background to the character, as well as some deepened relationshps with other existing characters at the time. Around that time Olezha had made Diana wallpaper as part of his study of office suits. Thus Diana refreshed her presence, but still mostly in the background.

At some point PSI bots appeared, and Nastya was already selected as a representative character. For technical reasons, the second bot of the same functionality was required, and with such scarce selection of female characters to choose from, Diana was chosen as the name and mascot character for this secondary bot. The icon was based on wallpaper made by Olez before, as it fitted the MKI blue theme really well. Later the power duo of Diana and Nastya was firmly established and Nastya was added to the aforementioned wallpaper. Diana redesign was long overdue.

Here we are - with Diana shifting away from MKI colors towards Redencon's pallete for personal projects, perhaps signifying the transition from MKI-centered development towards personal brand.