CEO of hyperfixation

i go by Co or Wren!/expect bugs, lots of em/profile by @gooseartblog

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Welcome to my bug obsessed blog! Please read the rules below before interacting ^^

No unrelated asks, this is a Hollow Knight/art based blog

Do not send NSFW/suggestive asks or messages, this blog is SFW only

This isn't a RP blog, so please don't treat it as such

If you need me to tag something let me know

Feel free to ask me to draw your characters!

As per usual the canon vessels all use they/them pronouns, so please address them with such!

wrens art-art/animation tag

wrens trash-doodle/shitpost tag

wrens ocs-oc tag

wrens stuff-non art related tag

personal blog

pronouns post

Asks are currently: open

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Btw I'm still making hollow knight art I just forget to post it, I'll post some in a few day idk

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Has anyone made a Rosy Maple Moth hk oc? If not I'm making one as I WRITE

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Attack on @mimemachine!

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*drops this and crawls back into my cave*

Widow's Fangs application thing

Fill it out with what character you're entering in the group

(This is not a necessity. It's mostly just for fun)

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So remember when I did this post? Well some people seemed to like her, so I started brainstorming! Here's the process I went through ^^

First I needed a bug, I wanted her to be similar to actual bugs like most characters in Hollow Knight! I looked up "bugs with long legs" for simplicity and saw "spider cricket". Since they not only have long legs and smaller, round bodies, but also have long antennae, (which is something I liked about the first drawing) I ended up choosing the Spider Cricket for reference!

Something I also found is that they are completely harmless, yet many consider them "creepy". So I decided to work with that! Instead of trying to make her creepy, I made her nail fairly sharp. I tried to reference the spears used by Mantis since they are presumably very deadly. Despite her weapon she's very friendly and tries to avoid fighting when she can. Because of this she's "deadly" but "harmless".

With this stuff combined I finished up the art and here she is!

I added and altered a few things! I gave her a strap for the nail to go on for convenience, since I like to imagine that she's similar to Quirrel in that she adventures around areas for small bits of time then moves on to the next mystery! I made her legs and antennae look more like the ones on the cricket, since I want it to be clear what she's referenced from! I kept her necklace the same since I loved it how it was, but other than the small changes she stayed the same! I personally love how this design turned out but I'm curious about what you guys think about it! And incase anyone was wondering, her name is Carmel! I named her that since "carmel" n "camel" are spelled similar, Spider Crickets are also known as Camel Crickets so I thought it was fitting, so yeah! I'm glad people liked the little doodle I made of her and I really hope that the people who saw that see this and like it too. I'm gonna try to be more active on Artfight for a bit so sorry if I don't post as much as usual

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I was doing warmups and accidentally made a thing

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I think I might draw her again! I got some ideas but I wanna know people's thoughts on here first, I really wanna make a more fleshed out version of her!

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I have no clue what he is or why I made him but I love him with all my heart

This is Pebs! He nicknamed himself since he disliked the name "Pebbles", and thus the shortened "Pebs" was born! He's not from Hallownest and is a wandering traveler type of guy. Pebs usually brings bags with him when he's on a particularly long trek. He does not kill for food and instead eats fruits and stuff lying around that he finds, but if needed he'll chew off bits of corpses laying around. If any Geo gets left behind he's sure to pick it up, and though he hasn't needed to buy much in a long while(and thus he has plenty of excess geo for anything he desires), Pebs is a massive saver. Because of this he almost never spends geo and looks for every other way around a situation.

Pebs can wear thicker straps on his stomach as opposed to the thin ones on his back, but they have to be tighter as his body is a bit slippery. He prefers to stuff bits of corpses he rips off in bags mostly, though if needed he'll eat them right there. Pebs prefers to eat the bits as a last resort. Since clean waters are sparce in travel he doesn't trust hot springs or lakes, instead he gets hydration from the fruits he finds on his journeys.

As there are many hostile bugs Pebs usually carries a few rolls of gauze incase he's wounded, since there's not much he can do to defend himself he usually takes detours even to avoid small things like tiktiks. Even the slightest scratch worries him, as he doesn't want the smallest chance of being infected.

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Hello! I wanna make some more ocs but I don't have any ideas, so I was wondering if I could get some help! If anyone has bug ideas that I could use to create some hollow knight ocs, please let me know! I particularly like characters like the following:

Echo-hollypies

Raisin-yokurt-321

Meepy-marnielovesyouu

Dana-molabuddy

Spat-scaredii-cat

I love characters like them! If you have bug ideas or design ideas then please lmk ^^

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Pronouns post for canon n my characters! ^^

HK ocs:

Looma-Vessel-She/They

Amara-Ambush Bug-She/Her

Mina-Dragonfly-She/They

Chimes-Vessel-They/Them

Echo-Vessel-They/Them

Pebs-Slug-He/Him

Carmel-Spider Cricket-She/Her

HK characters:

Vessels-They/Them

Hornet-She/Her

Lace-She/They

Quirrel-He/Him

Tiso-He/Him

Zote-He/Him

These are all I'm doing for now since I'll be posting about them a lot but if you want me to add any other characters lmk!

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My vessels Chimes and Echo! I need to make Echo a new ref augh

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I wasn't too active week one, but I'm gonna start attacking more this week!

The characters belong to: @goosesartblog, Jarhinge, and @strawberryaeris!

In order from first - last: Echo, Sakura, Helenada, and a character that has since been hidden

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I realized this pallet is perfect for hollow! I used white on the nail by accident so just pretend it's the right color augh

Here's the pallet btw!

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Drew some cool people's ocs! Here they are individually

Characters belong to @hollypies n @lunchbagboi ^^

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Why is getting back into animation so hard augh

Gif vers!

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I was doing warmups and accidentally made a thing

She's done!

I added and altered a few things! I gave her a strap for the nail to go on for convenience, since I like to imagine that she's similar to Quirrel in that she adventures around areas for small bits of time then moves on to the next mystery! I made her legs and antennae look more like the ones on the cricket, since I want it to be clear what she's referenced from! I kept her necklace the same since I loved it how it was, but other than the small changes she stayed the same! I personally love how this design turned out but I'm curious about what you guys think about it! And incase anyone was wondering, her name is Carmel! I named her that since "carmel" n "camel" are spelled similar, Spider Crickets are also known as Camel Crickets so I thought it was fitting, so yeah! I'm glad people liked the little doodle I made of her and I really hope that the people who saw that see this and like it too. I'm gonna try to be more active on Artfight for a bit so sorry if I don't post as much as Usual

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