I tried adding a few more crosses but taking uot som of the extra shapes, this time thinking about just her original designs, but none of them worked too well - the third is slightly better but just from the shape I think it still looks a little too bondage-y and if this was a show that teenagers/pre-teens would watch, like the audience of Teen Titans, I am not entirely sure if that is appropriate - Raven from Teen Titans still had a leotard and a lot of skin showing but with the simplicity and the cape hiding her half of the time it looked perfectly fine; for a character with a whip, I'm not sure.
I tried moving parts of the design around until I had something that vaguely worked, although the whip is in the way a bit too much - which probably does mean that a simpler design is better if it also has a moving, detailed weapon to contend with.
I managed to simplify it to the point where I like it though, with a little more armour but still keeping Ivy's signature belts/straps and the jacket from her other design. I feel like, in the second to especially, there is still a little too much going on, but it is very nearly there.
These possibly look too simple, but wither way the mid section just isn't Ivy enough. I definitely liked the armored parts at this point, but I was also stuck on the color distribution as I tried to keep a lot of her usual colours going on. There are enough different sections that I could get some good amounts of contrast going on, but since I want to keep her jacket at least as accurately coloured as possible, this is a little tricky.
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