give her a FUCKING break
the cliffside in late summer
#oc: julian#oc: diana#original#a new one... not really but i hadnt designed her previously#i love diana. im actually coming up with like. thangs for her#finally got a way for her to fit into both julian and liliana's storylines where i want her and guess what? it means Drama#oooooooh she shows back up and Julian is like WHAT the FUCK are you doing here#and she doesnt even recognize him. because how could she#she is. she has a moment. i love making characters have problems. go girl#but anyway. they're childhood friends <3#her design might change slightly but i like her hair and shes gotta be BLUE. cause im predictable#i think he wore his hair in a braid when it was long. he's similar to naomi in that way
Making enemies making friends
#oc: julian#oc: liliana#original#satyrs#you WILL look at them#for once julian is not my focus because look how GOOD my gorl looks. love of my life shes so swag#he's just a weird little guy but check out this CHICK i made bro#shes fun to draw because i can give her a different dress every time that is similar enough that u go 'ok does she have one item of clothin#'or like... a lot of basically the same thing.' the answer is Yes!#their first meeting is soooo funny to me#they hate each other they trust each other more than anyone they want nothing to do with each other they're inseperable#listen bro u dont get it u dont GET it. listen#they t4t. they're not a couple but like. you know. dont put too much thought into it
Redrew a Brooke. Look at her look at her look at her
forgot I never posted Liliana new design. there was a creature
#OC: Milo#he's my fuckign guy. hes so predty hes so fun to DRAW#check out how hard tumblr can destroy the quality of this bad boy also. please sir my pixels#it's fine. i love him. his hair and his earrings and his tattoos and all that. care he#i love how milo looks here but some of this one annoys me so im probably not posting it. but u get to look at him a lil as a treat <3
see,, him face
#OC: MIlo#wip#this is taking fucking forever because i have so many other THINGS to do ehhhhhhhh but anyway. opens my hands to reveal a him#he's my perfect little guy. oh no whats that?? gives him the horrors gives him the horrors gives him the horrors gives him the horrors g#listen. out of everybody i'm nicest to milo. everything wrong with him is HIS doing u cant blame meeeee aksdhflsjdkfladfjgh;kj#simply get normaller. boy#i <3 him
Yo why's he up there
#OC: Julian#original#fucking DESTROYED image quality. what the hell dude I didn't spend that long on his fucking HOLSTER AND STRAPS N SHIT for it to not show#anyway. instead of a brain there is julian. opens my hands to reveal a him#how'd he get up there? he is simply Built Different#if theres a thing julian IS climbing it. he likes to be tall#hrrrnrg. wimdy#i have a lot of fun making his hair more complicated than it needs to be. i care he#IDK MAN. thinking of him. i've drawn so much fucking julians in the past few weeks bro u dont UNDERSTAND. im soooo normal about him atm#i keep my art in like. folders seperated by year right. 2023 so far is just a bunch of julian and like two things that are something else#he's my favoriteeeee. which means he gets the horrors. :) check out this guy i made
i havent posted anything in what feels like forever have a fucked up guy
#OC: Julian#original#blood /#i have no purpose for drawing this. felt like doodling and then i beat up julian. as a treat#the title of this png in my files is 'get fucked idiot' and like. yeah#no thoughts. i think hes stupid <3#im queuing this so it wont be for u but it is currently 3:46 am. i also do not know why I am awake
redraw of an old one. go in the dark
old thing below the cut
#OC: Julian#original#why must you destroy my image quality. blease#anyway. colouours. what color is his shirt? fuck if i know#been about a year since the last one. oh hold on maybe i should put the old one here#ok. uh#i wrote some tags ripping on the old one but i suppose i will refrain. hes a lil ugly tho#decided to render him out mostly because his shirt looked weird with broad brushstrokes but it worked out for the rest of it too#i dig him. the lighting was originally way bigger from the lamp but i like the darker one a lil better. even tho i am colors 1 no.1 fan#colors no.1 fan. why is there an extra 1 hello#ANYWAY. holds my hands out to reveal a him#my FUCKIGN guy. occupies 90% of my brainspace at any given time#i have some others of him ive done in the past few days but for reasons that I know and you don't im most likely not uploading them#peace n love on planet earth
Messy merfolk thoughts for today - subspecies and morphology
#original#merfolk#mermaids#forgot to label their names. sharky ones are iarans. ray-finned are nix#iarans are predators and nix are omnivores. both of them preyed on humanoids in evolutionary history but that hasn't been true for a while#the nixie is also probably a male. they have more elaborate colors and fins than the females. the iaran. idk. they don't differ as much#females are a bit bigger but other than that there isn't much that changes#iarans remained predators on humanoids more recently evolution-wise so they look more mimicryish.#the fins mimicking ears at a glance and the general color palette (they're not all greyscale they vary from silvery to brown to black)#but nix branched out earlier and so havent retained as many of the mimicry characteristics. iarans are more basal. i guess you could say#idk. they are cute. finally having mermaid thoughts get BACK in here im thinking about merfolk
Redesign her because something wasn't right. get a load of this guy (girl mode)
#OC: Liliana#original#satyrs#deblonded her. it didn't look right im SORRY she can't be blond. get ginger. idiot#most things stayed the same but i gotta keep tweaking her design indefinitely until i like it. im gettin there tho#forgot her compass round her neck SHIT. its fine#also that sword is fully not hers. not what her swords look like. i realized she cant really two-hand the swords she uses so#random ass sword. she stole it from somebody idk idk#gotta keep doodling her to figure out how to draw her FUCKING hair. why is it difficult#anyway. her#AND shes transgener. just so u kno
behind you
#OC: Reiji#nightlings#original#eyestrain /#check out this fuckign. guy i made#oooh perspective. look good? probably#reiji unlocks the part of my brain that makes colors go brrrrrr. love this for him#playing with. light. as thematic indicator of uncomfort and unrest instead of ya know. how light is usually played#because. you know#ouch the sun so bright in my eyes#drawing reiji is always like check out this swag anatomy and then i cover it up with WINGS and FEATHERS eough. still cool tho
For no reason other than I feel like it here's the fur (or feather) pattern of humanoids, color-coded by how long it grows.
#original#satyrs#fauns#ipotanes#nightlings#worldbuilding#character design#do you know how fucked nightlings look without feathers? they're fuckign naked#wings without feathers is good for doing anatomy stuff tho. yeehaw#ipotanes look weirdly naked cause their fur doesn't grow up over their pelvis like with the others. lol#ALSO patterns basically don't vary much by sex with the exception of fauns but i did em both for each anyway cause. shrug emoji#and fauns get wethers! the secret third option#wethers are more complicated than this suggests like they're not REALLY a third sex or a third gender but#that's a conversation for another day#been going back and forth on whether satyr's pattern on their backs is fur or just markings and i think i like it better as markings#same with their face. it looks weird otherwise#ANYWHWAY
i think Julian deserves a little bit of. idk. whatever this is
#OC: Julian#original#saw an image. blorbo thoughts#this doesnt refer to anything particular i just think Julian gets a little naked covered in blood in the sheepyard. as a treat#original image is by mimi bark. i edited the composition slightly to fit my needs lmao. sheeps#drawing early era julian is always so fun because hes such a wet dog of a man. a little bit greasy a little bit weird lookin. love him#got nothin. get covered in blood idiot
no thoughts only this fuckign guy
#OC: Julian#original#hes so stupid i literally love him#playing with outfits. put him in something other than the same two puffy shirts over n over again#had to completely redo the bottom right because he looked STUPID but now. is good#dunno. no thoughts head empty. he looks. nice :)#he looks like a butch lesbian in the middle one. ok im done now
Fauns have personifications of the sun and moons (the latter changes depending on who's telling the story)
#fauns#original#sun and moon#faun ideas! faun.... mythos#cause these... ill call em gods... they don't ACTUALLY exist. or at least theres no evidence of them#cause. no magic#and they're not quite... gods. because they don't worship them in the way that's implied with the term 'god' or 'deity'#they just kind of acknowledge them. either out of true belief in their existence or as a storytelling tool#their societies are shaped by their. 'deities'. one way or another. but it's not quite a religion. at least in the way we tend to think#BUT the sun generally is depicted the same. simultaneously old and timeless. wise. kind. the double halo in her horns#the moons tho. ehehehe. their story changes by locale#the two most common/most accepted versions are A: the 'true' version#in which they are associated with wonder and cold light and the cyclic nature of things. but also with naivety#and they are looked up to the same as the sun. for guidance#OR. there's the other side. the corrupt version#in which they associate with treachery and selfishness and lies. bitter cold and air too dark to see through#this version is a cautionary tale and a warning#in it the sun and moons together spin a tale of violence and betrayal. whereas in the other version it's instead a story of family#understanding and communication. constructive- rather than destructive -conflict#alright. storytime over. designed soeme fucking guys check out their HORNS#based the sun on nichelle nichols because she had that iconic and beautiful but old look i wanted. rest in piece queen#the moons i mostly winged but u KNOW they gotta have the fucking interlocking horns beacuse its NEAT#also yea their hair is cut in the other version. (it's a surprise tool that will help us later) ASDFJGKHKLJ#i know i coulda made them more.... god-like? but also it's kinda the point that they mostly just look like people#fauns' characters in stories. big ones like those that come with the constellations and the creation stories. they're not special#theyre. for the most part. average people. the point is to find lessons in the everyday. songs in the mundane#the only other specific story i've conceived of LITERALLY starts with some form of 'hes a guy you could know. this is a lesson for u'#also this is just how they're depicted. it's not like 'they LOOK like THIS' this is just. how they're conceived by people.#their own faces assigned to these ancient forces. ya know#so it also obviously changes. but the big ones stay the same. REALLY long hair=really old/really respected/really wise/etc etc
rain shadow
#OC: Milo#fauns#original#uhhhhhhh idk hello! a him#i've begun to notice trends in how i draw certain characters. Milo? that it ur goin to sunset#uhhh i got nothin. no thoughts. mostly did this to have a little picture for his playlist i made LMAO. peace n love on planet earth#also foreshadowing. or whatever. but you don't need to worry about THAT akjshgakjfhalkdjjkd
#OC: Milo#OC: Reiji#OC: Julian#original#fauns#nightlings#its them again. colored them mostly to color julian and then i was like 'well... may as well do the others'#milo's look good but they don't all look Like Him. the top two are the most consistent#the bottom left and top right are my favorites tho. he looks nice#reiji's look. h#the topmost two are good. i like them and he looks like him#the others are eh. whadever#just look at those top two dont even worry about the rest ksaljghkjds#aaaaaand theres julian. i like all my characters equally...... ... .... ..... .... .. ... julian is my favorite#his all look pretty good. super saturated but that's just how i like to color so it's fine#the middle one and the bottom two are my favorites. he looks SO good. my ugly little man who is so incredibly fucked#AND! his all pretty much look like julian. this is helped by the fact that he changes visually a bit over the course of his storyline but#but like. yeah that's julian. they all look like Him which isn't necessarily true of the other 2#julian is so easy to draw. it's nice. literally just because ive drawn him 8236489 timess but like. its fine#i can consistently make him look Like Him which isn't always true for the others :/#julian's easy and fun to draw. milo is fun but he's kinda difficult cause he got a bunch of little parts.#reiji is easy to draw IF i use a simple style. but hes not always that.... fun. like he IS but. not here i guess skdjkjdf. fuck this guy <3