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More oc stuff! This time it is my X-men fan characters. :))
I had some thoughts about Rook and Reign when they get older, as well as doodled a small and simple ref for Reign and a few nonsensical doodles on the side.
Closeups:
Some oc doodles. I don't think I'm in an art block anymore, but I am still really busy. I also think I'm in a weird stage with my art, which is why I'm not happy with a lot of what I make atm. Posting this to keep this place alive some lol.
Side note: do you know how much it sucked to have art block during Arcane s2 hype? I still can't finish the wips I have of the like three or four fan arts that I began. :')
Anyway, close ups:
Some more older art from around March. I was experimenting with my style here for a bigger project. These are not my favorite drawings that I have made, but they're fun.
Also an unfinished sketch of a comic concept that I did for Chicken around the same time. Chicken hunts magical beasts btw. :)) They're like a ranger and a mercenary that collects magical ingredients for people. I found this in my files on procreate yesterday, so I slapped my watermark on it for some reason lol.
Oc time. Quick explanation:
I've had this character, Chicken, for a few years now. 6 or 7 now? They were just an oc that I would draw in cute outfits and nothing more, until around Feb this year, where I kind of settled on a proper aesthetic and general outfit for them. I normally only doodle them in my sketchbook.
AND NOW, recently, I've started working on a short little story for them. It is very fable/storybook-esque in nature. I'm not sure I'll share much of it but I wanted to share Chicken since I don't have many current drawings right now. This is an older drawing of Chicken's ref. Everything still fits, but I've darkened Chicken's color palette in this newer drawing, so that is the only thing that doesn't apply now.
This is from Feb 27, with no real watermark because I never intended to share these. Please ignore my terrible attempts at drawing Chicken using ASL. I promise I've gotten better at executing that. I'm still learning, thank you.
Oc time. Quick explanation:
I've had this character, Chicken, for a few years now. 6 or 7 now? They were just an oc that I would draw in cute outfits and nothing more, until around Feb this year, where I kind of settled on a proper aesthetic and general outfit for them. I normally only doodle them in my sketchbook.
AND NOW, recently, I've started working on a short little story for them. It is very fable/storybook-esque in nature. I'm not sure I'll share much of it but I wanted to share Chicken since I don't have many current drawings right now. This is an older drawing of Chicken's ref. Everything still fits, but I've darkened Chicken's color palette in this newer drawing, so that is the only thing that doesn't apply now.
This is from Feb 27, with no real watermark because I never intended to share these. Please ignore my terrible attempts at drawing Chicken using ASL. I promise I've gotten better at executing that. I'm still learning, thank you.
THIS IS WINDLOCKE AND I LOVE HER SO MUCH OKAY?? She's an oc that I made and sketched LASTNIGHT and have grown very attached to. She's an X-men oc technically, but I'll probably do more with her/branch out because I cannot get enough of her. I'll make another post about her abilities and other things important another time.
Note that these are kind of like concepts in a way(??), and so they're subject to change, but probably not anytime soon.
Anyway, close ups:
OC STUFF YEAHH!! These are my X-men ocs/fan characters! :))
Left to right is Rook (they/he), Reign (she/her), and Windlocke (she/her).
I meant for these only to be warm up doodles, but I ended up doing a bit more, since I just love them so much. I love doing these type of sketches where I just write down random notes to accompany my art. It obviously shows if you see my other art tho lol, but it can be a bit unnecessary sometimes lol.
OC STUFF YEAHH!! These are my X-men ocs/fan characters! :))
Left to right is Rook (they/he), Reign (she/her), and Windlocke (she/her).
I meant for these only to be warm up doodles, but I ended up doing a bit more, since I just love them so much. I love doing these type of sketches where I just write down random notes to accompany my art. It obviously shows if you see my other art tho lol, but it can be a bit unnecessary sometimes lol.
Oh small self reblog to clarify one small thing hehe:
I wanted to make sure I gave them all smiles that were different enough so that they did not all have the same smile, which is something I have an issue with, because I like to default to one type of smile normally lol. I think I for sure need to continue to work on it. Maybe I'll update their smiles another day. :))
Their hands are very important to me, because they show more of their personalities and backstories (besides the fact that people just have different hands <3).
E.g Rook's has rings on his hands because they like the fashion, but it packs a fun punch, and you can see that they are clearly a bit reckless.
Or Reign's hands are very well taken care of because she doesn't really fight or do a lot of work with her hands, despite being a trained spy (she'll kick the shit out of you though).
Or how Windlocke's hands are clearly beat up, but do not have active cuts, showing that she's no longer fighting after escaping her cult.
Anyway, I'll stop yapping for now aksjksj.
OC STUFF YEAHH!! These are my X-men ocs/fan characters! :))
Left to right is Rook (they/he), Reign (she/her), and Windlocke (she/her).
I meant for these only to be warm up doodles, but I ended up doing a bit more, since I just love them so much. I love doing these type of sketches where I just write down random notes to accompany my art. It obviously shows if you see my other art tho lol, but it can be a bit unnecessary sometimes lol.
OC STUFF YEAHH!! These are my X-men ocs/fan characters! :))
Left to right is Rook (they/he), Reign (she/her), and Windlocke (she/her).
I meant for these only to be warm up doodles, but I ended up doing a bit more, since I just love them so much. I love doing these type of sketches where I just write down random notes to accompany my art. It obviously shows if you see my other art tho lol, but it can be a bit unnecessary sometimes lol.
THIS IS WINDLOCKE AND I LOVE HER SO MUCH OKAY?? She's an oc that I made and sketched LASTNIGHT and have grown very attached to. She's an X-men oc technically, but I'll probably do more with her/branch out because I cannot get enough of her. I'll make another post about her abilities and other things important another time.
Note that these are kind of like concepts in a way(??), and so they're subject to change, but probably not anytime soon.
Anyway, close ups:
Rook has had a hard life. His fight or flight response activates when shown genuine kindness sometimes, and they always chose fight, which I figured would play out funnily with Kurt, since he is such a genuine and sweet guy lmao.
They momentarily worked with the X-men for a random mission and now ends up running into members of the team occasionally. This is also how he met Reign, who casually assists the X-men with missions! :)) She isn't really part of the X-men exactly, she just does her own thing, but she's a wicked spy and they find that useful.
Small oc dump!! Featuring my X-men fan characters/ocs, Rook and Reign! More art below! VVV
The character in middle, between Rook and Reign in the second slide, belongs to my bestie @awritersrenaissance! Her name is Gabrielle Morris, also known as The Moth hehe. Fun fact, Gabs and Rook are cousins and their stories are pretty intertwined! (The character mentioned as Hammerhead is their oc as well.)
Sorry for all my notes, I know they're not ideal, but that is just how I get info out sometimes lol. I will probably be drawing these sillies more later. If anyone is interested in Rook and Reign for any reason, please don't hesitate to ask questions! I love yapping about my ocs.
I'll probably make some silly doodles of them interacting with canon characters soon enough. I have a funny idea for Rook and Kurt's interactions asjakjsk.
These doodles vary in dates, which you can tell by the fact that Rook's ref has only my signature and no watermark, but the others have the watermark and no signature lmaoo.
THIS IS WINDLOCKE AND I LOVE HER SO MUCH OKAY?? She's an oc that I made and sketched LASTNIGHT and have grown very attached to. She's an X-men oc technically, but I'll probably do more with her/branch out because I cannot get enough of her. I'll make another post about her abilities and other things important another time.
Note that these are kind of like concepts in a way(??), and so they're subject to change, but probably not anytime soon.
Anyway, close ups:
Small oc dump!! Featuring my X-men fan characters/ocs, Rook and Reign! More art below! VVV
The character in middle, between Rook and Reign in the second slide, belongs to my bestie @awritersrenaissance! Her name is Gabrielle Morris, also known as The Moth hehe. Fun fact, Gabs and Rook are cousins and their stories are pretty intertwined! (The character mentioned as Hammerhead is their oc as well.)
Sorry for all my notes, I know they're not ideal, but that is just how I get info out sometimes lol. I will probably be drawing these sillies more later. If anyone is interested in Rook and Reign for any reason, please don't hesitate to ask questions! I love yapping about my ocs.
I'll probably make some silly doodles of them interacting with canon characters soon enough. I have a funny idea for Rook and Kurt's interactions asjakjsk.
These doodles vary in dates, which you can tell by the fact that Rook's ref has only my signature and no watermark, but the others have the watermark and no signature lmaoo.
More Cyrus (he/him) stuff. I actually had not planned on posting more of him, but... I love and miss him :'(. The dress one got quite popular on instagram lmao.
Dress Cyrus drawn: Jan 23, 2023.
Og refs of Cyrus drawn: Dec 26, 2022.
Timeline and scar refs drawn: Jan 20, 2023.
I really don't have any new art of him. :'(( My boy...
Posting this from my drafts because like I said, I was not sure I was ever going to post this.
My Mandalorian oc, Jaemi (she/her), a badass armorer, but also a complete goof who can't talk to pretty women without getting flustered (good thing she has a helmet, ig).
Jaemi is Mandalorian Nightsister? Idk how else to describe it. She was taken away by pirates at a young age as a sort of peace offering, and she wasn't really wanted anyway because she couldn't seem to grasp magic nor had any interest in it. I forgot what age she was, but it was young. Anyway, some Mandos ran into the pirates and ended up coming across Jaemi and adopted her, to make the story short. Jaemi is fully aware that she is from Dathomir, though she does not remember anything about it from when she was a child. So she shows her respect for her heritage through her facial tattoos inspired by the Nightsisters, and designed her armor to resemble their clothing as well.
Drawn: June 6, 2023.
Some original character/species concepts that I drew sometime ago. I still have interesting ideas for them (these three specifically), their world, and stories, but I don't think I'll be working on them anytime soon since I can't find a way to put them into my current/main original project, but they are here and I will use them one day. The pink character is my favorite and I think it shows :))
Maybe I'll drop the ideas and stuff that I had for them when I was drawing them another time.
Date lost ://
Another repost from my instagram, my star wars fan character, Ka'am (she/her) in a chibi-esque style (plus an alt version... idk I was experimenting). She had a habit of holding her light saber with her pinky out and saber backwards, but I had forgotten to draw her pinky out in this piece.
Date drawn: Jan 20, 2023.
Thank you :')))!! He's a sweetheart and a bit of a goofball, and also a bit of a push over. If I remember correctly, he either dyed his hair as a dare (or lost a bet lol) or as a way to show his honor in being a Coruscant guard, and had a lovely collection of pretty and dangly earrings to match or compliment his hair lol.
Drawing (and alt version) of my clone trooper oc, Cyrus (he/him). He was part of the Coruscant guard. :)) He is so pretty. I drew him a lot, and his mandalorian boyfriend, who belonged to a friend. Their story was extremely angsty, but that's just how it is as an oc... lol. Maybe one day I'll draw Cyrus again... but for now, I'll leave him.
Date drawn: Dec 26, 2022.
Drawings of my SW fan characters.
Ka'am (she/her) with Ahma (they/them), whom she called mentor.
Ahma is a togruta oc, who did die during Order 66. They have been redesigned a few times now, but nothing too drastic. This will probably be the only post about them, since I mostly drew Ka'am and Sib.
Second set of drawings are practices and warm ups I did using Ka'am. I used photod of professional ice skaters and tennis players for references.
Dates: Dec 3 and 15, 2022.
A little out of order, but some refs for my SW ocs.
Sib's ref date: Oct. 20th, 2022.
Ka'am's ref date: Nov. 4th, 2022.
The last one was a redesign ref I did for Jaemi, but never posted on instagram, since I was inactive at that time. The date for it is Oct. 9th, 2023. You can see several older art on the side of this ref, that I used to make sure I stayed true to her character. The last two armor drawings are still relevant and used when drawing her. Of course, I gave her a giant hammer.
I sadly have not drawn any of these fan characters recently, rip. They all go by she/her pronouns. Ka'am and Jaemi are roughly the same age, and if I am remembering correctly... Sib is like 6 or 8 years old in her ref.
My brother's dnd character, Alto Stratus (he/him), who is an air genasi monk that my brother came up with for a campaign (not one that I played in rip) and asked me to draw for him. :)) <3
I'm so-so about this art, it's very rough to me, but I figured I should post it, since it still means a lot to me.
Sept. 6th, 2023.
A drawing and an alt ver that I did for my star wars oc, Ka'am, when she first became a padawan. She's had a rough childhood, as most ocs do, lol. I just love her so much. Fun fact, she's half Pantoran and half Twi'lek. :)) As she grew up, she eventually gave herself Pantoran facial markings/tattoos inspired by the Jedi order, since that was her family.
Aug. 14th, 2023.
Posting twice today... Still trying to get the hang of tumblr. :'))
This was made during my hiatus from the internet and I didn't post it on insta rip. I know the besties over there would have loved this lol.
Some landscape practices I did featuring my Star Wars ocs, Ka'am and Sib, set during the rise of the Empire.
These two were Jedi on the run (well, Sib was a youngling and Ka'am still a padawan, but whatever lol), and I wanted to showcase some of the fun they might've had traveling the galaxy, despite the fears and danger that followed them.
Eventually, they'd settle within the Mandalore system and hide away as Mandalorians, which wasn't the smartest idea, but it was safe for a short while, and Sib was able to experience a life with less stress for a little bit. All she worried about then was trying to set her adoptive sister/mother figure up with the cool armorer lady down the street.
Of course, a lot more happened, but I'll spare the details for now. Hopefully I'll come back to them and finish their story properly. Right now it's set with Sib as an adult helping the rebellion. Gosh, they grow up so fast. :') lol
There was supposed to be a fourth piece to this series, but I never finished it. I still suck at landscapes, but that's okay. :))
Aug. 3rd, 17th, and 22nd in 2023.