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Hi people in the Gravedale High tag! Hi hello! Hope y'all are enjoying the show! Glad to see the uptick in art and such.
Anyway, I has three GH OCs -- two are Duzer's older sisters (Stheno and Eurie), one is co-owned by my partner and is a Phantom of the Opera kid (Eric "Orpheus" Creighton). Feel free to ask me about any.
Did a slight redesign for Specs, one of my Drak Pack OCs.
Literally just the face shape changed. Everything else (wardrobe, body, etc.) is still the same (more or less).
So there’s an art challenge specifically for Gravedale High called Gravedaletober. Today’s prompt was “Original Character”, so I brought back Eric “Orpheus” Creighton! You know, the Phantom boy I created with @blapis-blazuli!
Also my first time really using Krita!
(Background is from Gravedale High, cuz. Just cuz.)
So I’m gonna use a bit of a visual aide to help explain how tall Specs/Sandra, Helen, and Jackie are compared to the core Drak Pack, specifically when they’re just human.
Specs as a whole is shorter than Howler, coming up to his ears. Her height doesn’t change when she transforms.
Helen is closest to Drak when it comes to height, coming up to just above eye level with him.
Jackie starts out about waist-high to Specs (or about waist-high to Howler), but over time she can change her size to be pretty much as tall as a transformed Frankie.
So basically,
Y’all remember Specs, right?
That’s right. ‘Nother Drak Pack OC.
And yes, singular OC. Their personalities are different, but they’re still essentially the same person.
Meet Helena Stevenson and Jacqueline Hyde. Like Specs and the Drak Pack, she’s a descendant of a famous monster. Unlike the Drak Pack, Helen focuses more on the good she can do as a human and tries her best to hide and distance herself from her family’s history. Mainly because Helen knows better than anyone that if left unchecked, Jackie can be a short, unpredictable gremlin and get up to mischief. Not to the level of supervillainy, just things like pranks and petty stuff.
Helen & Jackie have an adjustable walking stick that hides the mixture needed for the transformation between forms. Her superpowers are namely superspeed (useful for getting out of places in a jiffy) and the ability to change size (both larger and smaller; the longer Jackie is around at a given time, the easier it is for her to grow larger up to a certain height; Jackie herself starts off relatively short).
Eventually (after some shenanigans ensue and everyone warms up to everyone else), Helen & Jackie and Specs form a branch of the Drak Pack, jokingly referred to internally as the “Back Pack”. After all, there are other supervillains out there besides O.G.R.E., and the main Pack is a bit preoccupied stopping that organization in particular. (Specs also becomes the only person in the group who is able to refer to Jackie as “Hydei”.)
I actually have an earlier drawing of Helen so y’all can see her main outfit! It’s under the cut!
The drawings of (canon) monster kids and monster teens will return as scheduled. The only reason it was interrupted was because I have created yet another OC for a Hanna-Barbera production.
So there’s a Hanna-Barbera show that’s not Gravedale High or a Scooby-Doo production that also has monster teens, and that show is Drak Pack (aired in 1980). The premise of the show is best summed up in the opening (which I will link here). The even shorter summary of it is that three teens, who are each a descendant of a classic monster, team up to fight crime / a supervillain organization. Yes, the three have monster transformations and everything.
And that’s where this little lady comes in. She’s also a descendant of a monster, seeking to right the wrongs of her forefathers. But unlike the Drak Pack, she’s also adopted an actual human alias instead of just calling herself “Specs” all the time in public.
Sandra Kemp is one to mostly keep to herself. She’s still a bit new in town. She considers herself a scientist (her favorite branches of science being optics and chemistry) and likes brainstorming inventive solutions to problems. Communicating said ideas can be a bit difficult for her. (And no, I’m not talking about her height.)
Specs is a crimefighting superheroine, one who would like you to think her name means something else than it actually does, thank you very much. This may have to deal with the fact that when it comes to stopping criminals, her methods deal with illusions and misdirection. She also goes after the more “small-time” criminals: still hardened criminals, but not supervillainous or supernatural. Again, she has her reasons.
Specs’ main powers are fully disappearing at will and limited assisted flight. Her boots and belt are actually rocket boots and a controller, respectively. But pretend you didn’t hear that, because it’s all part of her whole “illusions and misdirections” motif.
🖊 Vinnie’s parents
Oh my gosh, anon, I’m happy about this ask, but I’m also sorry to inform you that Vinnie already has canon parents. (His father is seen in the episode “Night of the Living Dad”; and in “Fear of Flying”, Vinnie says that he’s “batty” about his mother.) I talked about Duzer’s sisters is because she doesn’t seem to have any family to speak about in the show. I created her sisters because of that and also Greek mythology.
This meme is about original characters, anon, sorry to say. But I won’t leave you hanging because I’ll talk about another spooky OC of mine.
Fun Fact about Pif: If you’ve ever seen a scene of Sgt. Floyd Pepper (of the Muppets) walking, with his back and forth motion and all that, that’s how Pif walks. Just with her arms flopping about at her sides. All her focus (and most of her inner appendages) are focused on walking to where she knows she has to be. Yes, they do flop around when she stops to turn around. No, she hasn’t mastered holding a thing and walking yet. So if someone hands her something in between her starting point and her destination, she just “eats” it (stores it into her outer ragdoll skin and holds onto it from the inside) and continues on. Don’t worry, the item’s okay.
(Send me a “🖊+an OC“ and I will talk about that OC!)
🖊 Duzer's sisters?
Eurie absolutely was one to spoil Duzer when the latter was a child. Mainly because of her own inexperience, Eurie eventually settled on the method of “let’s let Duzer get what she wants” when they were out shopping and the like. Anything to stop little Duzer from throwing a tantrum or Eurie to panic-yell at Stheno for advice on what to do.
Stheno, by comparison, was a bit more... let’s say “aggressive” with her part in raising Duzer. She suddenly had to be the one providing for everyone, after all. She’s the one that helped instill Duzer’s work ethic, for sure.
(Send me a “🖊+an OC”, and I’ll talk about an OC!)
