the original one was from like. 2017/2018 (i think i drew it on new years? or at least around that time) and the redraw is from 2019/2020 idr.. but i still rlly like the newer one! i might do another one just to see how much ive improved w my mspaint skills... and art. i guess that too
and some more older stuff i like :] from early 2022 to early 2023
plus a bonus of when my artstyle changed... i couldnt find Exactly when i stopped drawing necks that might be a sketchbook special </3
i dont think the first + last ones are like. The last/first times i ever drew like that but theyre definitely close enough that it doesnt matter lol. either way the one in the middle Is literally called "different style consideration" so
i took a break from working on this one for a few days and u can literally see when i picked it back up cuz my style changed so drastically cxbhjdfg
fun fact i stole the no neck thing from a mutual who doesnt even do it anymore lmao
i was looking through my drive full of old art (lookin for my sonic ocs from 2022 i wanna bring back) and man. i gotta post some of this stuff some of its still p good... i also wanna redraw some things
sharing the art i still think holds up is on pause look what i just found from 2016-2018
all of these were drawn w my laptops trackpad im pretty sure fgjfkh i remember being sooo proud of them (even the unfinished one lol)... i think i even posted the first one on deviantart????
also please look at how i drew myself in 2017 (ft a friend i dont talk to much anymore </3)
i was looking through my drive full of old art (lookin for my sonic ocs from 2022 i wanna bring back) and man. i gotta post some of this stuff some of its still p good... i also wanna redraw some things
aoapaoughhhg.... im thinkin abt nanksby instead of sleeping (i have a hadache... and a birthday tomorrow....)
(sliiight cw for cheating?? kinda?? also uhhh like sex is Mentioned. barely)
theres just smth abt like. monogamy is So inportant to gatsby like,, he could Not comprehend that daisy could love him And tom at any point in time. and now hes dating nick and everythign is perfect and hes So happy but also. frank.
he likes frank a Lot and it confuses the hell out of him. frank by himself is confusing to gatsby cuz like,, gatsby loves ppl that are even remotely nice to him once and heres this dude who isnt Mean but hell tease him and poke fun at him. and then turn around and make him lunch just because he thought he looked sad. gatsby cant figureh im out at all
so needless to say hes a little bit horrified when he starts to think hes falling in love with frank. hes already in love with nick, how could he do this to him? the last thing he wants is to wind up being another tom, how could he ever fall in love with another man?
so naturally the way i fix this is by having him sleep with frank skfjsj
ok so like,, they dont Properly sleep w each other its like. making out + over the clothes teenager shit udk man... i dont have too much if this fleshed out cuz gatsby doesnt drink (i dont think sober gatsby would ever lol) but ive been toying w the idea that maybe hes starting to feel comfortable w himself + around nick and drank so he indulges a little,, maybe its a holiday or smth
anyway . so gatsby feels like the fuckin scum of the earth . he didnt Mean to it just,, happened. he rlly likes frank and hes p sure frank likes him too (frank flirts w everyone but spoiler alert hes notimmune to the gatsby charm) so now hes avoiding nick cuz hes afraid hell find out and its only making things worse
eventually nick confronts him and gatsbys like "oh god im the wors lt person on earth im no better than tom you might as well shoot me again nick im no good" meanwhile nick. who is polyam and autistic. is just like "oh. yeah i figured. its fine. do you wanna date frank too" and its such a nithing problem to him sjfjsj
(nick Does have more complicated feelings abt it btw but hes not gonna tell gatsby that why would he. at the end if the day he also wants to kiss frank again so like,, seize the moment babyyy)
uh and then they have to try and wrangle frank into a polycule without having the words or experience sjfnsn its silly they have Issues but its fineee theyre totally well adjusted adults w nothingn wrong w them ever
FUCKIGGNN,, gatsby has so much love in him and he doesnt even realize..... he loves nick and he loves frank but hes scared of it cuz all he knows of love is Weird and Warped and Wrong. he cant conceptualize polyamory or even just,, loving someone in a different way than youre used to . am i making sense do you understand
aaaaughh thinkin abt. frank... who woulda thunk....
specifically thinkin abt him feeling So like. inadequate after jay n nick get together. hes just a constant reminder of the past, and how no matter what hes Never going to be good enough for nick, or even at all. hes not the rich, handsome guy next door, hes not the one with THE FUCKING BOOK ABOUT HIM. hes just nicks ex who lives with him and his new bf and it torments him every single day...
thinkin abt him Convincing himself nick is going to tell him to Get Out so he starts packing before he can get the chance to get hurt (which is. a pattern in all his relationships a teehee) and nick n jay find him like "what are you doing??? :(" and frank just. breaks. hes the number one champ of Repress Everything In Favor Of Humor and now hes been caught in this vulnerable state by these people he Genuinely cares so much about and all he can do is cry abt it (which only concerns them more)
after he finally manages to tell them that hes leaving and why it takes a while for them to actually convince him that they Want him there, and suggest he sleep in nicks bed w them that night (theres room !) and its like. hang on wheres the post
THIS is their dynamic before theres like,, an "intervention" or some shit sjfnsnd
sorry i keep posting today im having the time of my life thinking abt my ocs <333
so anyway idk if i ever talked abt lucky and kismet (they were in my old unfinished all the angels animatic/slideshow lol) but erm. awhile ago i Did kinda scrap them right,, but im realizing now i never made anything up abt moes friend from highschool so methinks im just gonna mash lucky and kismet together into one character for that so theyre not fully Gone
turned into a quick doodle but im not complaining,, anyway heres moes friend who was a bit of an asshole. its ok if i speak ill of the dead i made her up
sorry i keep posting today im having the time of my life thinking abt my ocs <333
so anyway idk if i ever talked abt lucky and kismet (they were in my old unfinished all the angels animatic/slideshow lol) but erm. awhile ago i Did kinda scrap them right,, but im realizing now i never made anything up abt moes friend from highschool so methinks im just gonna mash lucky and kismet together into one character for that so theyre not fully Gone
ok so like im gonna say all this and ill Try to elaborate cuz idk if ive ever shared the lore for this story or not dfghjfg i have a bad habit of forgetting to talk abt things and then assume everyone knows what im on abt yknow . anywayyy al being trans would honestly make some of his backstory make So much more sense to me
like hes from this crime family, but he breaks away from it to do his own thing cuz they dont respect him (for whatever reason,, but making him trans could actually give him a reason to do that yknow. like they wont let him join in the family "business" cuz hes a "girl" so he runs off to do his Own crimes. as a man. and its the 30s/40s so ofc his family isnt gonna be too happy abt that Anyway (one of his family members was gonna be a minor antagonist too,,, i can have more to him than just "im your brother and im mean to youuu" dfghdfkj) )
and now hell have more of a reason to so quickly and openly accept lucy (not to say that u cant just accept trans ppl for no reason. cis ppl Should be more like al However it Is still the 40s. but also like als always been the kinda guy to not care what other ppl are doing as long as it doesnt hurt him or other ppl (another reason why his family doesnt like him much, hes always been kind of a vigilante yknow) ) but if Hes trans too..... hes So happy to find someone else like him and it kinda breaks his heart that shes repressing as much of it as she can yknow,, thats why when they have this masquerade ball they have to go to (its a front for smth . idk what. this scenes been here since before i made them my ocs and i Like it ok) hes like encouraging her to wear a dress (for "undercover reasons") and be more openly Herself (and also hes flirting w her big time . he wants that cookie so effing bad /ref)
(lucy doesnt find out that als trans until later on tho.... itd probably be around the climax of the story but idk i dont even know what Happens in this damn story man dfghdfjg there would be little hints abt it tho . i love foreshadowing and ""plot twists"" that arent just out of nowhere)
but al and lucy can be like,,, narrative foils ? idk if thats the term i want but whatever. like lucys actively hiding who she is to keep herself safe, but shes Miserable pretending to be a man nearly all of the time. meanwhile al is p much fully transitioned (as much as you can be in 1942) and while he Could be happier, hes definitely not miserable like he was before yknow
ok i had to go through an old hard drive of my laptop that crapped out around 2020 and i wanna say these picrews are supposed to be of the surgeon guy???? or maybe i just wanted to make an evil doctor for funsies
(picrews one and two)
i Swear i did one of the vampire but i cant find it so i might not have actually saved it??? i remember what exact picrew it was too but whateverrr
anyhow. remade them and now theyre dykes because why not (under the cut cuz im a yapper)
(picrews i used)
the names And designs are subject to change but as for right now the vampire (top) is priya and the surgeon (bottom) is dolores/dolly (who i didnt make look like her original design,,, im gonna be honest i kinda forgot lmao)
but im just. gonna post a screenshot of me going off abt the new lore in discord sourryyy
i need to remake more of my middle school ocs this is fun.... maybe make em all lesbians . big fan of those
ok i had to go through an old hard drive of my laptop that crapped out around 2020 and i wanna say these picrews are supposed to be of the surgeon guy???? or maybe i just wanted to make an evil doctor for funsies
(picrews one and two)
i Swear i did one of the vampire but i cant find it so i might not have actually saved it??? i remember what exact picrew it was too but whateverrr
anyhow. remade them and now theyre dykes because why not (under the cut cuz im a yapper)
(picrews i used)
the names And designs are subject to change but as for right now the vampire (top) is priya and the surgeon (bottom) is dolores/dolly (who i didnt make look like her original design,,, im gonna be honest i kinda forgot lmao)
but im just. gonna post a screenshot of me going off abt the new lore in discord sourryyy
i need to remake more of my middle school ocs this is fun.... maybe make em all lesbians . big fan of those