10 years ago I made Delilah and Andre.... That's so wild. Aughh!!!!!!! I wanted to start off the new year with some new OCs at the time, and I ended up making it their in canon birthdates. Which leads us into THis New Years project...!
Darla and I have given most of our characters birthdays, and we hope to draw each of them on their special days! A good excuse to get to see a little bit of everyone instead of you know only drawing the same guy every time. 🥴 It'll be fun!
Does it have to be human? Does it have to be mine?
Day 13 of The 13 Days of Halloween: Costumes!
Happy Halloween everybody! Today's the final day of our little mini challenge! Darla and I have actually had this little costume idea for Krissandre for a while, and I'm glad this Halloween I could finally make it happen! With Andre as Seymour, Kriss as Audrey and of course, featuring baby Leia as Audrey II. Shes hungwy dads, pls feed her! (candy!)
Kriss is @duck-n-clover! And their Halloween drawing is linked here! Don't forget to check the 13 Days tag to see all of our drawings from this event, and have a spooky day!
1 What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)?
It was right after Art Fight and I desperately wanted a Queer Horror OC before Halloween season. There was a lot of talk about what kind of horror we wanted to go towards. (which maybe still is not quite settled as there are multiple "Horror Movie Plots" in our Whorror Movie story.) But we settled on demon possessed with some religious trauma and a bit of delicious revenge, and Darla and I both worked on designing our own guys separately and see how they would fit together. I sketched these:
I thought the demon might be similar to an AU demon we have, Goopy, who possesses Lucky and Nate in a story, so that's why I have the drippy drawing in the corner and the inspo for the top surgery tattoos. That's how Goopy was! But Quinn's Demon is a bit different now!
Black hair with horns was a must but it mostly became spiky hair with the Vibe of horns. (… unless! rule of cool: draw them as horns anyway its badass!!)
In an early iteration of the story Quinn and Parker were going to find a baby possessed by a demon, from an Evil Cult Town. Quinn's demon and Parker's strength (and bloodthirst) destroyed their Big Bad leader who was doing the baby/demon sacrifices, and the baby was abandoned, maybe thought to be dead? They were like sure… We'll see what we can do with this little thang. They named it Blair Belladonna.
They knew of an older witchy/demon knowledgeable grandma figure (literally Domino's Grandma before Domino was a character) who could help them learn about this baby's demon and how to raise a little demonling. BUT That never settled into canon, there is no baby Blair.
(However! Much of the baby demon possessing cult thing turned into Domino's backstory. 👀)
12 What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC?
Remembering the dripping perma crying eyeliner down his cheeks. Yes it's supposed to be a permanent feature. 😔
Also figuring out how to draw the hair in between the "horns", how to make it spiky but not distract from The Big Spikes, which direction its going off in, etc.
Otherwise I think Quinns pretty easy to grasp for me! 🤔 I love when I get to use flat black for hair and clothes when I'm just doodling so thats always a relief.
18 What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC?
This was trickyyy ahh Andre's such an old character that hasn't been the main focus lately, so a lot of thinking of him recently has been like. Reminiscing on old facts and not necessarily bringing in anything new. If theres something I've recently discovered of him, I can't think of it!
One thing I've recently decided after some consideration is that I'm going to fuse the Original Andre story where he adopts Delilah the robot and the AU where Andre has an Actual Human Baby instead of the robot together. So now, Delilah and baby Leia exist at the same time! Yay, two of them!!! It's gonna have to make me rethink and plan out his timeline a bit differently and see how he reacts to things now. I just haven't actually set out the time to plan the combined story yet. I feel like I softened up Andre's story a bit in the baby AU, (less drug use, less bad relationships with sketchy people, etc) so I'll have to see if I end up keeping it slightly more balanced or if it'll stay more true to the Actual Canon events, maybe just pushed around the timeline a bit.
Something else that feels new from semi recent times: I thought of an AU where all three of his parents actually like. Get together/stay together polycule it up and raise Andre together rather than the usual backstory of:
two good friends in college befriend and get a crush on the same woman
the guys start a business together
one of them marries the woman and they have a kid together but he gets way too into his work and neglects his wife, oops :(
she then goes to their friend for comfort, which leads to cheating, which leads to she GETS PrEGNANT (WITH ANDRE!) (NOT her Husband's child!) oops :(
she tells her husband the truth and they talk about separating
The Friend leaves The Business and is told to basically never speak to them again
Husband decides will simply raise this child as his own and works on bettering himself and the marriage (if only for appearances and/or for their older daughters sake) and he will simply Not resent the New Child for any reason, it's That Easy!
(he said, you know, like a liar.)
Andre finds this out (Accidentally! From his SISTER) as a full grown ass adult and it fucks him up for a bit. oops :(
⬆ this is a lot to Get Into. And also it's Not the new stuff, although I probably haven't actually delved into it before…!
But basically, all this to say, this New 3 Parent AU leads to Andre being much more well adjusted, because so much of his… THing in his life (in canon timeline) has juust been. family treating him unfairly for something he had no part in and resenting/reacting to that. 🥴 And his two dads are such opposite strict/lenient personalities that they'd balance each other like, reallly wellll if they had that opportunity to both raise him from the start, and Andre would have someone in his corner when he's Going Through rough times in life. AUgh. If only…
(Also his bio dad is … probably autistic like him so I think someone would like, UNDERSTAND him and the way he does things while growing up which is like, wow groundbreaking.)
Andre dates Libra and Drew AU??? I think that they would make him worse. As a treat! 0:)
These were for Art Fight for @duck-n-clover! You know I had to draw both of our guys together.. We were building a funny little relationship swap AU at the time. :)
The after care pic was gonna go in the sketchpage but it got too big so I got a surprise extra drawing in lol.
