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OC Stuff (@_@) #GAotSi200y for my current OCs〜

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GAotSi200y Chapter 0: Beginning

Chapter 0 | Chapter 1.1 | Chapter 1.2 | Chapter 2.1 | Chapter 2.2 | Chapter 3.1

There is actually no formal title for this. GAotSi200y is just an acronym for a Google Slides presentation I made of these characters for a friend. A more formal name would be the Inheritance universe, but that sounds really boring, so I'll stick with the funny name. Anyway, this comic was made finished in I think May 2022. I was doing my first year of AP Art (I took it twice) and was hating it (that's a story for another post, regarding the specific character it was about). So as refuge from the self-imposed hell of AP art, I took another art class in my second semester just so I could make a comic, and that's what this was. I don't think anything in particular inspired this comic (though, of course, the actual story and such is probably an amalgamation of interests and the like). The material this was done in was traditionally using fineliners (and the occasional brush here and there) and then screentones digitally on CSP. I think I did find a decent balance with the screentones but again, it's not how I'd personally prefer it considering my aspirations at the time. Here's a "reference" page I made for the class. I put it in quotations since I never looked at it, the designs were very simple. Also a doodle of a panel.

I will try to compile these preplanning things perhaps in the other posts as well, but there isn't much for those. Anyway, I'm saving a lot of stuff for the character-specific posts.

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GAotSi200y Chapter 3 (1/?)

Chapter 0 | Chapter 1.1 | Chapter 1.2 | Chapter 2.1 | Chapter 2.2 | Chapter 3.1

Well... this is done.... I didn't check, but this style definitely felt more time efficient. I'm not really satisfied with how this came out, but I'm glad it's done. I'm not sure when I'd draw the continuation, and, regardless, it's probably best to do non-comic art for a good bit...

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some simple Oda sketches, the second unfinished.... I have grown stronger in the anatomy department since these (I'd hope......)

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the first drawing was another test of the comic artstyle that I have since abandoned.... I also realize that these seem to characterize Fuu a certain kind of way that I don't usually...

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small Aidil doodles, the second one is after Neal gets punched in the face by Oda....

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Small Nicolai sketches.. the first one would be the first time Nicolai says he loves Jude (._.) honestly, the Judolai (or Nude if you prefer) is really the most indulgent story of mine.. probably..

also excuse that Jude is just a block lmao

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These are from the same batch of drawings as the previous post, also mostly as sketches for the comic (except drawing 2, which is Vesna and Ivancica, who I can never draw right). I had contemplations about changing Hermes' outfit (drawing 1) but ultimately just went with the original design for it I had made years ago.... funny how that works out..

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These are from earlier this year, done as practice for the style I would use in my summer comic. I had decided on this cell-shaded style and while I definitely think it works for these drawings, it definitely ended up making the comic process longer than needed... but I have learned from that experiment （＾＿＾）☆ and I am making a continuation to that comic that has a more efficient style.

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Fun with Neal and Aidil (+Ayako and Oda)

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Nicolai + Jude drawings inspired by Panda (@/fable on twt) and Monkey (@/oreoeocat). Original tweets under the cut!

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Various sketches +Dennis Rodman

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Hello, I continue my archiving ventures〜 As you can see in the last image, theses drawings are from almost a year ago when I was on winter break. I made a couple of these sketchbook-like pages, so I'll post them soon

Mostly OCs, except 2 of these are technically Dostoevsky fanart lol. The 2nd one is Stavrogin from Demons, and the 7th one is comparing my character Ivor to Ivan, who my friend kept saying looked similar (I disagreed and tried to illustrate that).

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OC Stuff (DnD)

Since this consists of a lot of characters, I'll make it in chronological order of creation. Very little accuracy to actual DnD, I am sorry in advance to proper DnD fans.

These were characters for the first DnD campaign my friend group did, which was following the actual DnD lore and rules (this would not be the case with following campaigns). My character is the blue guy Zale, who I designed around the ocean. He is a specific creature from the DnD lore.. but I genuinely do not recall which. In the first place I am really not savvy with fantasy and fantasy creation, so designing for this campaign required a little more effort on my part, to middling results. The other character was drawn for someone else's character.

OK so this is the point where we gave up on real DnD rules and just did JoJo DnD (and every campaign would be like this from now on). This guy was probably a recluse and his Stand was that he could take or store anything in his infinity Bucket. The other thing I struggle with, alongside fantasy, is designing interesting abilities, so a lot of my DnD guys have these stupid abilities lmao.

King's ability was that they could paint anything into existence. Similar to Michal, lol. Not really much to say about the design. I don't know why I wanted to relate Michal and King, the campaigns were not related themselves, but I found it novel for my DnD characters to be family, so they're cousins.

I can't remember exactly but I think this guy's name was genuinely Guy? That might not be the case, but I'll believe it now. Anyway, this isn't technically a DnD character I used (seeing as he has no portrait) but was one I developed for a friend who was considering DMing but never got around to it. He is Michal's father and King's uncle. He also has a weird Amygdala looking thing on his shoulder (name: Amy) that functions in place of his missing arm. I had finished Bloodborne the year I designed this guy and decided to be unapologetic about reference. The other guy was going to have story involvement.

You may notice there are 2 people in this section... There is reason there.. basically the top guy is for sure named Guy, and he has two consciousness chips implanted in him, one of which is the guy below, Downstait. The reason he was made that way was because when this new campaign started, a friend and I both weren't sure about our availability and decided to make a shared character, so that if one person wasn't available, the other person could take over Guy and control him without canon issues. It's honestly one of the most creative characters I've made (and it's undoubtedly due to collaboration) but the campaign didn't really pan out, so not much has come of it.. I'm proud of what we made regardless

Final and most recent character, Cameron Payne or Cam Payne. It is a pun and reference to the Payne attorneys from Ace Attorney, which has nothing to do with his actual character. He's a cowboy from prime cowboy era. I actually had to do an accent the whole time during the campaign which was extremely fun and difficult. Hope to use him more...

Well, that's all DnD characters I've made, and also all OCs I've made (with a lot of art at least.. there are more new OCs, but they'll just appear in recent drawings and such). It took me a whole year to complete this archive, but that was more out of getting distracted with other projects than sheer quantity... 　=(^.^)=

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OC* Stuff (Aidil+Neal)

Aidil was covered in this short comic. It's accurate to his current situation and character.

Aidil, brother of Lidia (briefly shown in this post), and his name is her name backwards. I took a bet that Aidil was a real name, and it apparently is lmao. Aidil was initially conceived just as a means to create a character based off of things I liked (90s Shawn Michaels is the prime inspirations for Aidil visually and characterwise).

Aidil is among characters like Fuu or Ivor where I cannot really capture them as I'd like. There's never exact satisfaction with their depictions.

One last OC post... DnD characters.

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OC* Stuff (Daniel/Sin/D)

Another character in the same vein as Kyloni where I definitely think this isn't his current design, except there isn't a new design to be presented.. it's something I have to get around to...

Anyway Daniel/Sin/D is a similar character to Katalina/Damien, they're actually related as well. This design of his was inspired by DMC3 Dante's hair.. But upon trying to consider a redesign, the eye-shielding bangs is an impediment hard to get around... more thinking to be done.

Also, funny note about the first painting, but it was actually done for this summer art program... we had to make a bunch of paintings and I, who only really makes OC art, of course made an OC painting that no one understood (completely fine). The moment depicted is actually really important, but it would look different with new iterations.

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OC* Stuff (Katalina/Damien/AP Art)

Alright, there are more drawings of Katalina/Damien following this but this top half was my submission for my first year taking AP Art (I took it twice, but I don't plan on posting my second portfolio since I don't care for it).

I had taken art classes before in high school for fun, I found them fine enough but always felt there wasn't much self-expression (despite it being an art class) so when I started AP Art for the first time, whose premise is based off of artistic freedom, I was really excited. Upon reflection I think my expectations were unrealistic. I thought I could draw as I did usually (aka my OC stories) when in reality, just like any art that isn't made exclusively for personal reasons, I had to cater towards a rubric and expectation. Even though I tried to do so even with this portfolio, I got a middling grade, which upset me because I really was proud of what I had made... but looking upon this a couple years removed, I'm not surprised it didn't do well. Ultimately I was too drawn to telling an OC story rather than a cohesive sequence that the average person could understand.

I also felt that being put into a box and trying to manage the way I created was a really uncomfortable feeling. It made me hate drawing, which in turn depressed me because drawing was so important to me. I learned a lot from taking AP Art, but the primary thing was that because art was important to me, I shouldn't take it for granted and shouldn't make it for the sake of others. Another positive was that I tried out a lot of mediums and enjoyed them, such as ink painting or using water-based markers.

Removing the context of AP, I do think this is a good portrayal of this character. The reason why their name is Katalina or Damien is essentially because after image 4, Katalina essentially "dies" and Damien lives in that body and discovers themself. Damien is the one with an artificial jaw and arm. Of course, this is pretty hard to communicate without a lot of context...

I draw Damien from time to time and learned to appreciate them even though I inevitably associated them to my AP art based frustration. Though, so many years have passed that it's all good now. Anyway, various Katalina/Damien drawings to follow. There is also a minor character called Esperanza featured.

the following OCs will not need this much explanation... lol... almost done...

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OC* Stuff (Denzil+Yun+side)

I only recently remembered why these gys were created.. basically in my senior year homeroom class, whenever we were forced to sit there doing nothing, me and this other girl would watch this KDrama about zombies. It was really bad, so bad in fact that I cannot recall anything about it or what its' name was. However, within that KDrama, there was a doctor character and a gangster character.. and something went off within me.. that's what spurred these two (actually 4, but the other 2 are barely drawn). I evidently gave irezumi design another try, but I don't think I was particularly successful (though, again, the idea is there).

Denzil is the one with the mohawk, Yun is the shorter one, Matthias is the other guy drawn with Denzil, and Lidia is the woman with the nose piercing. Honestly, I really thought a lot about these two and their story (it would be a tragic one) but once I had thought it out, I rarely ever thought about them. However, the creation of these characters led to the creation of more characters, so no harm no foul.