Hello everyone and welcome to my Sky: Cotl Side blog. Here I mainly post my Sky related art/screenshots and repost other people sky content too! So you can expect my OCs poping up here every now and then.
I find myself only rebloging things from Sky but not playing as much as before, even with the new season. I know most veterans say that at some point burn out is a normal thing.. The small project I had with my sky characters has been there, staring at me for some time. I want to return to it at some point but hmm
Just ramblings.
hey! here I am to spill long texts again, because this is my blog and I love to talk about my ocs.
First, the drawings, I really liked how they turned out, the brush helped a lot because it felt very light, I will probably paint these drawings in the future.
Orion and Berk, both adopted sons of Reah…
I remember I have mentioned a few times the staff Orion has and the bells on it. Here it is designed, there is not much to say, the staff does not sound unless you imbue it with light, its sound depends on the bells attached to its side and serves to attract the creatures of light, it is a tool used for migrations.
I've changed the orion mask again, but I still haven't decided its colors or if I should leave it like this, I think it looks cool anyway.
Regarding Berk, I've thought more about him, now he has a tail! in the end I've come up with the idea that he has some kind of memory problem, he just has the personality of a golden retriever and it makes him incredibly childish. He forgets where he goes, he forgets what he was doing sometimes, he forgets things he's supposed to know how to do, sometimes he forgets people, but he doesn't feel particularly sad about any of it, it's like “oh, yeah that's right!” and then he'll remember again just by having something to put him back on course of what he forgot. Everything about him is a bit of a blur even his moth days, but he's really happy because he has orion, Reah and Taro to help him.
Fun fact, berk is an excellent chef, but he always forgets so he has a recipe book.
I'm glad you mentioned it because yes, it's something that happens, that's why Berk is always accompanied, at least for things like this. Orion can cook but his skill is… average, it's not something that catches his attention but he can do it, on the other hand berk LOVES to cook, but anything that takes him away from what he's doing will make him forget the pot is on in the kitchen.
But when berk is focused it's a really cool thing to see, it happens mostly with tasks that he does every day as they are the ones he forgets less often. Berk has other talents as well, but most of them are talents he forgot he has, which leads to situations like “hey! I didn't know you could do that” “ehh…. Me neither!”
Regarding the mask I'll probably use this design, it's still the fox mask, so yeah, I'll probably use the red colors, maybe I'll add some white because the mask is VERY red, but I'll do some tests.
My character playlist page for Mufo is coming along, though one big roadblock is that it needs background art! I've talked before about how I wanted to draw Mufo's home base someday, and I think just drawing a small portion of it for some background art would be a nice place to start. One thing I struggle with when it comes to backgrounds though, especially character-based ones, is making them feel lived in. Backgrounds I've drawn in the past often felt too clean to me, like no one is living there! Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to slap down some sketches to flesh out Mufo's room, but I can write about it to reference later, so here we go!
Mufo lives in the Vault of Knowledge, more specifically inside what can be thought of as a "storage closet". These storage areas resemble larger areas of the Vault, but are mainly used to store menial things like cleaning supplies, spells, and personal belongings. Mufo has part of a storage closet all to herself.
Her room is basically like an indoor tent. The "walls" are actually just pieces of cloth. It's convenient since she can enter and exit her room at any location, though at this point she has dedicated "door spots" — specific spots she decides she is allowed to walk through. Anything that isn't a door spot she treats as if its a regular wall and thus not normally walk through.
In terms of solid furniture (like, heavy stuff), Mufo might not have much. At the moment I definitely imagine she has a bed and maybe one or two bookshelves. Maybe she has a chair in there, to go with the shelves? Other furniture she has is mainly pillows and blankets, strewn across the floor so that many places in her room are comfy.
Currently debating if Mufo decorates at all. Like the stuff I listed before is mainly functional in nature. Maybe younger Mufo wouldn't have cared about decorating, but present day Mufo does since she has finally seen the outside world for herself and is insanely inspired. With that in mind, I gotta think about what Mufo decorates with. I definitely think if you showed Mufo some fairy lights it'd be OVER for her.
This might be one for the decoration category, but maybe Mufo keeps souvenirs from her journeys if she can pocket them.
Her room almost definitely has some memory lanterns and books lying around. This would have been especially true when she was younger (like the drawing above!), where such things were her only form of solitary entertainment. As she got older, she became better about returning memory lanterns and books to their rightful place in the Vault (though not all the time, hehe).
At the moment I don't imagine Piripu has a home, but if he were to crash anywhere, it'd be at Mufo's place. He probably does it often. With that in mind, Mufo's belongings probably got pushed around with Piripu becoming a pseudo-resident. Fortunately, he is a boy of few belongings... For now?