More old art reposts, because I feel its off-topic enough to post here since I need somewhere new to post and don’t just draw Scooby-Doo constantly.
So long stupid story for this character: some unspecified years ago, I can’t remember exactly I was between the ages of 10-13, somewhere in there so 2010-2013 I wanted to make a character who was a slasher, but was unfamiliar with things like gore properly at the time.
So instead of trying to design my own character I made a rip off Michael Myers, down to the mask. I believe I drew a single shitty image of him in a sketchbook, and it was JUST the mask(not even a head or anything) with squiggly hair. I thought “I can’t just have rip off Michael Mysters, I have to make it different” so I came up with the idea to make his hair blue because I had been referencing art from blue haired anime men at the time.
I didn’t draw him for YEARS. That was the only image that exist of blue-hair Michael Myers rip off. Then sometime in 2018 I got into Slasher art, especially on tumblr where I saw a lot of peoples OCS. I remember seeing a trend of teenager boy flashes. I wanted to make my own slasher OC but the closest I had at the time was old Creepy Pasta OCS which really didn’t fit the handle. Then suddenly, I remembered my blue haired Michael Myers rip off! I could finally do something with him and make it original! remake him and make him good!
I never actually sat down to draw it, because I had way too many ideas, but Blue-haired-Michael-Myers was going to just be redrawn as a Slasher is overalls but with a filthy blood/dirt stained mask, and a blue scraggly wig. THEN I had the idea to make him younger, because all the slasher OCS I saw on tumblr were young teen boys. So the next idea was for him to be a skinnier, scraggly teen boy, much younger than before. With the same mask, but cleaner. I played around with the idea it would be a wig but settled on it being his own hair, that was dyed blue.
Then I tried to come up with a story line for him, but by that time I was kinda bored and done with Slashers as a whole. I ended up toning his story down to where he was a slasher, but had trauma. And then to where he was a slasher, but it was an accident that he killed someone. He became younger and younger, until he was a 12yr old child. I debated keeping him a slasher, but he kept getting younger and more innocent and more incapable of being a proper murdering slasher. So at that point, I dropped the slasher plot line entirely.
He eventually got the moniker of “Blue Boy”. I kept the story line about him being abused and having (possibly) killed someone by accident, but he was a small child with no real malicious intent.
Anyways, what’s the point of this story?
Has anyone heard of SALLY FACE? It’s a game. One of my friends helpfully pointed out Blue Boy looks identical to SF and they are right and its horribly annoying because every time I have drawn him someone has asked me “Is that Sally Face?” it is not.
So now I’m left to wonder if I should change his hair color. I know you can’t copy right blue haired anime boys wearing masks but the resemblance is undeniable and its annoying. But if I change his hair color I can’t call him “blue boy” anymore and I really feel blue WAS his color. But I hate how much he looks like SF. His hair isn’t even naturally blue.
I’m thinking of having it changed to pink or green in his teenage years because I really like that color scheme but again, it kinda ruins him :/ ah well.
Enjoy the art. First image was drawn Dec 27, 2018 Second image was drawn Dec 23, 2018
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