Who is your comfort character?
We all have them. Our favourite characters that when we draw them, have a therapeutic effect on us. For me? That’s Phobos, my changeling OC.
A project I had originally abandoned, having found itself on the pile of “start but never finished” now has found it’s way to the finished pile! And will you look at that! It really..really came a long way.
You see, the original idea was just to draw Phobos in his human form. A little time beater for my personal enjoyment. And after I had abandoned it months ago I picked it up once more; this time with more confidence and I started to like the way it progressed.
Adjusting the form, adapting the looks to make it more “him” playing around was a joy and much needed to help me beat the artblock I had acquired at that time.
I loved it. A small project of human Phobos to keep me occupied and busy and something that I genuinely enjoyed working on.
Why do I keep lying to myself. I don’t do SIMPLE!
So OF COURSE I had to give myself a challenge. Why should I just work on human Phobos when I also got his anthro version of similar design flying around which I had never continued either!
I am a sucker for punishment. And so I suddenly had two versions to work on, which in all honesty was a blast. Figuring it out, setting them both in scene. I conversed quite a bit with my friends and ask them for opinions on how to incorporate the anthro version and alas it was “Stick to the current theme” so cyberpunk-like it was!
It did take me a bit until I was happy with Phobos’s anthro look, trying many different color combinations for the outfit and sword. As they are the same person I didn’t want to strife too far away from the other and keeping it in the color theme essentially sitting in the mix of blue and purple.
Then it was only a matter of finishing it. To throw in the effects, the shading and the light. Making my boy(s) pop in just the right way. This character means a lot to me, originally created as a temporary character ready to abandon at any second, he stuck around and he became my persona. My art comfort character. My personal guilty pleasure when it comes to drawing. As nothing relaxes me more as to draw my grumpy changeling.
