TLDR: Recently Ive been thinking alot about splatoon OCs me and my kid made and i started doodling little graffiti arts for them I liked how they where coming out and decided that i would dust off some photoshop and make them for real. I followed [url=https://youtu.be/uCDqQYMuf9Y?si=XO6S2ph0i_Vah9NX]This[/url] from youtube sine im bad at both handwrighting and drawing.
So recently I've been doing my best to find something to bond with my daughter over. In a lot of my sentimental times I think alot about when I used to come home from work and find her playing splatoon, or how she used to sing fan covers in the back seat of the car while we where on long car rides. I loved how she seemed to live in that world especially when I saw she named her account after her character and started cosplaying characters at conventions.
We started playing together and of course with her dozens of hours of experience I got whomped. (Whomp whomp..)
Soon after figuring out the controls and that I was clearly not meant to use this game's version of a sniper rifle (especially not in a 3rd online person arena) I started to get the hang of it well enough to begin playing against her on lunch breaks at work (because she was home schooled) as often as I could. Soon we had a mini YT channel where I was playing one of my favorite influential games with her (earthbound) and she was talking me though my first playthrough of Splatoon 2!
We had lots of jokes and I was collecting equipment like crazy. With that I was thinking more and more about what my splatoon character would be, and so was she. Fast forward a few years and a game later and every splatfest weekend I have her over at my house for the weekend and we're stocking up on Baja Blast and tacos to fuel our frantic splatastic bomb rush. We even came up with cheeky names for our online gametags. She was Lil' Hype-R-Bomb and I was Kil-R-Wail(because I'm not allowed the second L )
Soon I posed a question to her. "Do you have an OC?"
Not long later we started thinking of Hyperbomb and kilrwail as actual charaters with tragic backstories, lore and even a secret base made from an old Taco bell (for unlimited reserves of nuclear Baja blast of course!)
Soon at work I was doodling and thinking of my character's story, and trying to doodle up a tag for him in the style of splatoon and jet set radio. I found myselt trying to use sacred geometry to plot out the letters and make crazy shapes and trying to combine them with the baja blast logo. (BTW it doesnt look good when you suddenly stop working to scrawl these things out, I wont stop you just know its weird and so am I and I'll stop when I die.) I'm not much of an artist, my doodles usually consist of the same chao character I draw over and over and still cant get right. And my penmentship is relegated to an edgy script ithat takes me an awkward amount of time to scrawl out (it actually comes from a friend's design of my old online signature) So needless to say it came out like a pancake in an air fryer.
Soon I'm trying to dust off photoshop skills and failing off and on to get my tablet to et it right. My penwork isnt great but i couldnt get it to come out the way I liked with the pen tool. one night i was settling in earlier than normal and decided I had time to follow a photoshop tutorial and sought one out to help me decide on a style that I could make and edit easily enough if we need changes. I ended up learning a few things about layer styles that have changes since PSCS3 and its almost exclusively layer styles.
Anyway thanks for letting me rant into the void, I may start blogging the story of our OC characters, not sure yet. Whoomy!