This is a WIP but I'm never gonna finish it so here ✨
I wanted to change Carlos's hair bc I realized his temples should be visible so it's probably more swept back... but my layers look like this
So that would be really annoying to do and I don't feel like it 💀 oh well, forever unfinished art LOL. I'll probably just redraw the whole thing eventually tbh, it only took me a few hours and I know I can do better 😌
Hi gang! I haven't had a phone in a few months so I kinda had to disappear off the face of the planet. I suppose I could've used Tumblr on my computer, but to be honest, I forgot that was possible.
Anyways! I've become really obsessed with Welcome to Night Vale recently. I'm only 75 episodes in so please no spoilers, but yeah. So here are some sketches I made about episode 35, because I like that episode. It's a good episode.
A low stakes event about making a new friend and appreciating the journey of creation!
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After sign-ups close, you'll be asked to review the list of other sign-ups and let us know who to remove from your pool. The goal is to find a new story partner you haven't worked with before, so you'll be asked to let us know any regular creative partners you have so they can be removed from your pool. Once the pool-limiting review period closes, the soulmate rolling begins. You'll have about a week to get to know your soulmate and ensure you and your soulmate are compatible, but if you have any issues such as sharing no common interests or incompatible timezones making it difficult to talk, you can enter a smaller reroll pool or join an existing pair.
Once soulmates are settled, the AU creation period officially begins! Your AU can be Life Series, or it can be for another fandom where you and your soulmate have common ground. You can even make something based on your sonas or OCs. Shipping is allowed, but NSFW will not be reblogged to this blog.
This event is meant to be low stakes and "low effort," focused more on the processes of collaboration and creation than it is on a polished final product. Your AU should have some sort of story line, though it can be as complicated or as simple as you and your soulmate would like. While you're more than welcome to make a full piece of art or fic for your AU, you do not have to. Your final product can be as simple as a sketch or a fic outline. Whatever you want to do!
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Give us more Mio lore please 🤲 it's your turn to OC dump
I love you so much for asking! :)
Mio is like a mother when she is around kids. She loves working with kids, that is why she works with Bae at the daycare on the weekends. Bae and Mio have a mutual understanding of how kids need to be treated. When they are working, Bae is the teacher and Mio is the mother/ fun one. Bae will teach the kids while Mio will mother them when she gets hurt. Mio is a student teacher, and she plans to become an English Language Arts teacher. Mio was assigned to the jerk group with Lynn, and that's when she start crushing on Lynn.
Mio was born in Japan, but moved to Sunset Bird when she was 10. Mio has anxiety when she is alone, she has panic attacks when she is in a room with someone she is unfamiliar with, and she can’t order food at a restaurant because she is afraid to. Mio is currently working on her anxiety problem.
Things she loves- Being alone, the dark, forests, pomegranates and mangos, bunnies, drawing on herself, loves listening to her fav song Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Ray
Aah, thank you for the ask (and the very kind reblog)!
I'm going to answer the drawing portion first, as I feel that will be more helpful to anyone who's curious! Siy information will be below the cut :]
The speedpaint is cropped so it can be seen better, but I've included what my full canvas looked like as well. The biggest thing for mimicking the art style was looking at the other sprites constantly. I would look at the sprites and find something close to what I was trying to draw, and then stare at that specific part while I worked. For example, Nate's hand, Everett's arm, and Jeremy's tie! Also, I blatantly copy-pasted the uniform pattern, because no way was I gonna try to recreate that 😭
Now, for a small (well, not really small) Siy lore dump under the cut! Warning for a cliche and edgy, self-indulgent OC 💖
Also, Siy sounds a lot like Pran in this, but I assure you, Siy is not inspired by Pran! They are just the XOD version of a character I already had, who happened to also have white hair and a lack of interest in speaking, LOL
Siy, full name Siy Lencten, is a new student at Saint Sarah Belle, transferring during the same year as JB. After their best friend died, Siy went completely mute, believing there was no point in talking to anyone if she wasn't around. Their parents tried everything — therapy, extracurriculars, leave from school — but nothing seemed to get through to them.
That was when Siy's older cousin, who had previously gone to Saint Sarah Belle, mentioned sending Siy there. He told Siy's parents about the strange new friendship-making groups his friends who still went there were being forced into. Siy's parents thought it would be the perfect opportunity for Siy. Maybe some time away from home and some new friends would be just what they needed.
Their parents spoke with the school, and they were placed in the Jerk Squad. Siy was not interested in new friends or fun activities, so it was honestly a bit of a relief to be placed where they were. Lynn let them sit silently with their head down as much as they wanted. What a dream, well, at first.
Eventually Lynn asked them to stay after a meeting, and gave them one of those small school whiteboards for during meetings, asking that they at least answer when asked a question. Of course, the whiteboard thing didn't go over smoothly with the other Jerks, but they all got over it eventually.
And so, yeah! They start to open up more in the second year, but they never fully come out of their shell ^^;;
Have some Siy fun facts because I love them dearly:
- Their last name is the word "Lent" is believed to have come from, meaning their name can be interpreted as Siy Lent, or silent 😭 I'm so funny 💔
- Their best friend that died is named Annabelle Eden Lee, a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's final poem.
- The first people to hear them speak are Jeremy and Pran, because Siy feels like they're the only ones who wouldn't make a big deal about it in one way or another.
- Lynn gives them a portable whiteboard with a marker holder for their first birthday with the group 🥹
- They run cold, and generally wear around 3-4 layers on warm days, and up to 6 or 7 on cold ones.
- They have heterochromia (one green eye and one blue eye), but they wear hazel contacts because they don't like attention. They chose Hazel so that if they ever say the wrong color, people won't question it 😭
- They hate JB at first because she doesn't take the hint that they want to be left alone, but eventually she grows on them <3
- They were assigned male at birth, but their parents are very supportive, even if their dad still screws up their pronouns sometimes 💀
If you read this far, have some Siy and Jeremy sketches as a treat 🫳
Oh yeah, I also drew a sprite for my OC a month ago. Their name is Siy. Their blazer is too big for them because it's a hand me down (imagine parents so stingy they send you to boarding school but won't buy you a new uniform, that's crazy 💀). Technically they also have longer hair pieces and wear a turtleneck under their uniform, but I was too lazy to draw all that 😭🙏
Oh yeah, I also drew a sprite for my OC a month ago. Their name is Siy. Their blazer is too big for them because it's a hand me down (imagine parents so stingy they send you to boarding school but won't buy you a new uniform, that's crazy 💀). Technically they also have longer hair pieces and wear a turtleneck under their uniform, but I was too lazy to draw all that 😭🙏
I drew this ages ago in the height of my Jeremy obsession, but I'm lazy and never posted it. So here, have some XOD Jeremy in the rain. Once again drawn traditionally and then colored digitally.
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