Campaign OCs Lineup + Reference Sheets!
Oh man, I’ve actually been making so much stuff recently and I literally just haven’t been posting it anywhere outside of like… discord… so here’s me attempting to catch up on that once again! Today I’ll be going through all the refs I made in preparation for this year’s Art Fight!
(Full Refs & ramblings below cut!)
SO! I’m still very obsessed with my campaign OCs… and they’ve been multiplying…
From left to right, we’ve got Ross Woods (my pc, and the source of the worm in my brain for this game), Sullivan Groase Hunt Edition and Sullivan Groase Corruption Edition (the boyfriend of my pc who I find great pleasure in throwing rocks at <3 I’ll spare you the details, but he’s got two designs because recently he was given a new body to escape the corruption, because it hates him! Hooray!), Beau Silverstein (my immortal baby whomst I adore; they died and became Death for a little bit but they’re chill now), Moriah Groase (Sully’s sister and Beau’s gremlin partner), Mavis Wells (my backup character! She hunts people for sport and I would die for her), Harriet Barker (the most mentally stable person in this lineup, and Ross’s old boss), and finally, Camilla Woods! Ross’s dead mom who definitely didn’t rumpelstiltskin her way into surviving a stab wound and consequently cursing her child to be marked by corruption while still in the womb… she would never…
Ross was the first reference I started on, and I basically had the majority of it finished last year, but I only got around to completing it recently because of school :/
…and also maybe partially because I added like a bazillion details into every inch of this ref that probably aren’t even necessary at all, but I was having FUN okay? Drawing tiny little items to go in a bag brings me joy…
Next up we’ve got my boy Sully!! My babygirl! The light of my life! Give kisses to this man every day and also throw him down the stairs and kick him and call him stupid behind his back <3
Out of all of the refs I made for AF, this is the one that was probably the most necessary. I’ve drawn Ross a hundred times by now, so I can confidently draw him very consistently without looking at his ref, but with Sully (especially since he got a body swap recently), I don’t draw him nearly as much, so his proportions and little details like how his curls specifically frame his face, and where exactly his scars are located tend to get lost or moved around slightly as I draw him, so it’s nice to now have something I can look at to keep him more consistent going forward!
BEAU TIME!! Beau never had a proper fullbody design before this, so I’m glad that I was able to pin something down for them (though I imagine they have a pretty expansive wardrobe anyway). This is Beau as they would appear when we met them in the campaign, with something work-appropriate and sensible for handling corpses, but day-to-day, they probably wouldn’t wear pants very often, instead opting for long skirts and simple dresses. I still think they look cute like this though!
Moving onto Moriah! She honestly probably didn’t need this (for my purposes at least), because I already had a pretty solid grasp of her appearance overall, but regardless, it’s nice to have something concrete! It was also very fun to design the patches on their pants… I tried to make most of them have some sort of meaning, even if they’re really simple, like the Japanese flag just her labeling herself as half Japanese for example, but a couple are just there to fill space I’ll admit lol. Something fun with having this side by side with the Beau ref though is that it really highlights their differences as a couple, with Beau being the more down-to-earth, mellow, quiet type while Moriah is loud and energetic and colorful, and I just think that’s cute.
MAVIS’ TURN! This is another one that I’m really glad I made a reference for! She only had a couple headshots and a chibi design before this, and since I had such a specific body type in mind for her (that being VERY tiny almost pre-teen kid-esque), a full ref was just necessary. I also made an alt without her clothes to better show her silhouette beneath them, as well as solidify the positions of her scars! She’s got quite a few of them, although not the most out of anyone in the campaign (looks directly at Madeline), but their placement still felt important just story-wise, even if I don’t really plan on ever really drawing her in anything revealing enough to show them off outside of this haha.
Harriet next, and AAAA I’m so glad I finally gave her a proper ref and took her out of her work clothes, she needed it so bad! Deciding on an outfit for her was challenging, but I ended up going for something that I thought would compliment her friend Naomi well, with darker shades in contrasts with Naomi’s white hair, and gold accents to contrast Naomi’s silver shoulder piece! I really like the way she turned out, and I definitely think she’s one of my favorite designs of the bunch so far.
And finally, Camilla! She was technically the first one I worked on after Ross, so her outfit variants are separated into two images (because I hadn’t decided on a format yet). I’ve never done a fullbody for her before, not even as a chibi, so this was really nice to finally get done, and I think she turned out super cute! I wanted to first put her in normal clothes, and I wasn’t going to make an outfit variant at first, but I’ve always visualized her in a hospital gown and full PPE in my mind (because when I’m thinking of Camilla, I’m usually thinking about her death and the moments before it), so I just had to do it, since it would be helpful for drawing her in the future! Also, this was the first ref that I started doing this slight gradient style shading on, and I really fell in love with it?? I’ve been doing it a lot since then, not just with the refs, and I think it looks soo nice… I’m debating going back and updating Ross’s ref to have it too, but who knows… that might take too long for me to be bothered 😭
