Replying to this ask ages later (and in the evening-), and using it as an excuse to say I've started to work on chapter 11 of Soul in Oil Paint :D Here's the very beginning...
Well, prepare for a somewhat lengthy post deatilling my headcanons for what the Fred's artstyles are
Before we start, just know I hc that the Freds 's ability to give life to their art only applies to oil painting, so they can still do other stuff without any risk of creating new life.
I picked out some artwork to give you an idea of what I imagine their artsyles to be, check out the alt text for artist credit!
Now, without further ado, let's go!
Og Frederic is more of a realistic landscape artist, with a heavy focus on lightning and colors.
He is kind of a jack of all trades though, and has dabbled in all sorts of art throughout the years, he just ended up choosing to specialize in oil painting landscapes. He'd switch to acrylic paint after the Visitor stuff, or even just draw stuff on paper. It's somewhat frustrating, because the technique with acrylic paint is different than the one with oil paint, but he's getting used to it.
Weirdly enough, he'd end up creating quite a fair bit of portraits post-vistor, despite...everything.
Facetaker, at first, has a very similar painting style to Frederic. The main difference being that Facetaker uses brighter colors, and tends to prefer painting still life instead of landscapes (especially the sky. He won't ever paint the sky again).
As it gets more comfortable living as himself, it'd experiment a bit more. Try some more abstract stuff, and slowly but surely leave the restrain of realism to try out more things.
Bright would use pastels, and does pieces with lots of light
Most of the time, he'd stick to drawing soft scenes of everyday life, with long strokes of color.
But sometimes, he lets his "selfish" emotions out. (His vent art is some of the most gut wrenching thing you'll ever see.)
Shadow Fred does charcoal painting, making great uses of shadows in his art
He has two main types of piece, semi-realistic portraits of cursed individuals, which he makes in hope to help them accept their new form and more abstract, symbolic pieces, sometimes with a focus on eyes.
Bitey would paint using ink, whether black or colored.
He wouldn't be aiming for realism but still manages to have a great grasp on anatomy (the best at it out of all of them). He'd paint using bold lines, and paints for himself, using a lot of his art of a way to express whatever he's feeling, through artistic gore, or letting his maws even bite what he's making.
Godhead uses watercolors, and primarily does landscapes.
His use of colors and lighting is always excellent, and all his pieces are pleasing to the eye. His pieces are all really big too, some taking up a whole wall He does try out surrealism sometimes. He draws the sky a lot.
Scared draws in a comic book style, one especially inspired by French-Belgian comics (and also...Fabrice. In my hc, he was a comic book artist).
He has a strong use of shadows, and would have tons of sketchbooks filled to the brim with unfinished sketches. He does write a bit too, to vent his feelings, whether it's story ideas for characters or poems.
Toxic struggled a lot with finding his style. He quickly found out that most of the painting skills he had honed as Frederic seemed to have vanished, which frustrated him immensly.
After a while though, he found his path. Now, he does sketches clothing design, and he's really good at it. Though it's the only thing he can draw (imagine the following illustrations but the people drawn are just stick figures while the clothes remain the same).
Wriggly started to draw digitally (he stole Frederic's phone and installed a free drawing program), and found his own style, cartoony, simple, but charming all the same.
He draw mostly light-hearted stuff, though he does delves into different things from time to time...He ended up posting his art on social media and ended up with quite the following !
Tumor is a bit different compared to the other Freds, because instead of painting or drawing, he sculpts !
Most often using clay, he'll create abstract, rough structures, vases, or small objects. He may not create big things, but he creates a LOT. He doesn't usually paint, but sometimes, when he gets the urge to do so, he'll use paint to color one of his creations.
And...here ! I've had this post in the works for a while now, so hope you appreciate it ! If any of the art there seems interesting to you, don't hesitate to check who the artist is and check some of their work, because spending some time browsing through an artist's gallery can be plenty fun ! (and hey, with the Freds, art appreciation is all on the table)
I will say I think the main reason this is taking so much time is that I have somewhat specific hc and that finding art to serve as example for that (and more importantly, find who the artist is to credit them) can be real complicated sometimes (though ofc I'd rather do that than not credit the artist)
Replying like this bc it's easier to share links that way, but you guys should check this out...Very awesome Freds stuff there! (not mine, so go give the artist some love if you have Twitter)
Did my Freds fixation truly leave or do I just need to get back to the root of what I liked about those characters. Hmmm. If you know the reply I shall give you. One Fredillion dollar.
I fear my Freds fixation is fading. I guess it should have been expected considering I've been fixated on them ever since April/May 2025...but still. It stings a bit.
I do still like and enjoy and care for them. But I don't get this huge boost of dopamine whenever I see stuff about them anymore. I don't think about them 24/7 anymore (bc yes, that was very much the case before. I struggled to concentrate on anything else), I can get interested in other stuff again...but I don't know. It kinda sucks. I most probably will still write/draw them, but like...less. I still have a fic I wanna write (I do have even more that'll probably stay wips forever, bc I don't think I can write all of them without the fixation)
I just kinda hope I won't lose all of the people I've bonded with over them because of that ? I think they've been my longest fixation by far in part bc I could actually talk to people about them. Which is great, but it comes with that downsides. I'd understand if people didn't find any interest in speaking to me anymore bc of that.
I feel like I did when I first discovered the freds, I feel like. Neat characters I really enjoy, but not in a way that consumes my every waking moment.
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