Okay, I’ve been drawing this literally all day, I’m tired but let me show you at least before I call it a night
So this morning I for some reason felt the desire to design Ham, aka the lovechild born in Living the Dream by two of my characters, 97 and Celeste
I was too lazy to actually get a reference of Ham on my iPad for reference, I just worked off memory, but I do have references for his parents at least (Sylvan is crossed out bc he’s not part of it)
In the game he looks mainly like Celeste, so I had decided he’s canonically the same made-up species as her, so I was going to draw him as a Capra and in their cowboy outfits
He actually turned out better than I was expecting, and I’m pretty proud of him. But then I didn’t know what else to draw, since I didn’t really want to just draw miscellaneous sketches of him, so instead I got the idea to properly redesign other major members of the Capra story cast
I definitely think Ham and then Raven turned out the best, while Cedar is fine and Rusty I’m dissatisfied with. I think the latter two need more work before I settle on their new designs. But honestly, I’m just going to attribute that to the fact that I drew all of these today with only 1-2 hour breaks in between while I waited for my iPad to charge (this poor thing has suffered much today), and my creative juices can’t work that much in so short a time frame. Like I’m exhausted
I also think with Rusty in particular, he’s not as fleshed out as the other characters, and I didn’t have as much of a clear picture of what I wanted to do with him, so he ended up weird. Also I remembered he’s supposed to be very furry and I might have gone overboard trying to emphasize that. I had to cut out his beard because it just didn’t look right, he looked like a lumberjack
I probably need to give Rusty some more attention and character work outside of just being “the chill guy” of the main trio
But at the very least, I was able to get some new designs for these characters, and some of them look pretty good
And since I’m here, I’ll give you (hopefully) brief rundowns of the characters and their roles in the story. Not Ham though, since he’s not canon
Also a note, Raven and Cedar have ? after their names because I haven’t decided on those as their new names yet. They need to be color based, so their old names of Hesperia and Rasmus don’t work, but I haven’t been able to find ones I really like yet. These are so far placeholders, but they might stick if I can’t find anything better
Main rundown of the Capra plot is that Celeste, Rusty and Cedar are cowboys hired to drive a herd of…fantasy cattle things, given these guys are already goat people, to some location, and on the way they get into misadventures
Celeste is new at the cowboy gig, just about 20, this is her first big job and she is very eager to prove herself. Rusty is around his mid 30s and more experienced, but very laid back and gets along with Celeste well. Cedar is more of a mysterious drifter type (they don’t know his age at first but he’s early 40s) who’s quiet and clearly has a dark past, but he’s trying to move on and be a functional member of society, cordial and usually ending up as the voice of reason among the trio
Cedar is also straight up magic and has fire powers, which is a result of him being abducted and forcibly put through a magic ritual by his captors, which also messed up his body. Raven was a previous attempt by this group at this ritual, and while both survived it, Raven’s body is more unstable than Cedar’s and it left her with amnesia. They were eventually able to both escape after a plot important event, but the rituals changed their appearances and gave them unstable powers, plus neither had anyone left to turn to, so they had to build new lives for themselves, and they chose to stick together. Cedar’s often the one going out and earning them a living, while Raven has been studying and practicing magic in order to possibly find a way to reverse the ritual’s effects
I was also going to go into Rusty’s backstory, but I realized it wasn’t really important to mention here. But I’ll go into it if I draw his dad Silver. Which I might because I want to expand on Rusty’s story and I just really want to draw the family trees for the main trio
And that’s probably about it? I remember I had more I planned to say when I was drawing, but I either can’t remember or I can’t be bothered to type all that right now. But hopefully you like these drawings at least
