Zeronis\_Art@weibo is “Former Senior Concept Artist at Riot; Former Concept/2D Artist at BLZ" and I found his posts back to 2020 about Blackpink and K/DA. I think based on his words, unlike many ppl trying to deny, Blackpink was his main real-life inspiration of creating K/DA characters as what they are.
[https://weibo.com/6841758907/J1g9Q2pcN](https://weibo.com/6841758907/J1g9Q2pcN)
Translation: "Hey, anyone still remember them? K/DA, the coolest LOL idols! Jesse Li and I were the main designers of this project, now let me share some fun facts behind the scene!
The theme of this project was very exciting, and I even went to Blackpink's concert! At the early stage of the design, the sweet&cute concept was also difficult to give up, but after seeing the concert, the crazy atmosphere made me fired with creative inspiration, therefore I tried the cool and charismatic style /heart.
I will reproduce my thought process of this design in my course in July, contact me if you are interested in the design process of kda."
[https://weibo.com/6841758907/Jq3cNojic](https://weibo.com/6841758907/Jq3cNojic)
Translation: "How you like that? /heart
Just draw Blackpink's foxy girl Jennie, I am creating IDOLSTAR series, one day I will go to Blackpink's concert again cause they are the best!
[https://weibo.com/6841758907/Jm5HPbcxg](https://weibo.com/6841758907/Jm5HPbcxg)
Translation: "Hey, can you recognize her?" （Talking about his course that the last project is about Kpop）
"A lot of ppl like the K/DA characters I co-designed, this time I will use Blackpink as the reference model AGAIN for demonstration /heart. Before I designed K/DA, I tried a lot of things to enrich my visual database." (Then talked about how to use light and laser effect to present the texture... not sure if I understand the technical context)
