witch of grape seeds. this is a witch themed off of grape sno-cones 🍇 🍧 design notes below cut
i used one of those 'roll a number' and make an oc with the results and got her. the colors are approximate, but i dont think ive ever drawn a non-human skin tone before. i think shes adorable, but shes missing something, or at least shes off-looking.
i started sketching out that grape vine fedora before remembering my prompt included sleepy and whatnot... so she makes and sells witch hats. yes. haha. 👒
🍧 i then tried looking up "grape desserts". a lot of them are kinda bad looking... something about grape flesh is uniquely kind of unappealing. my wife threw out how grape sno-cones are great and then it matched my themes. so then i started that.
🍇 i changed it half way through the drawing, but the hat is supposed to be a sno cone paper cup. originally i had it kind of fold and droop like a sleeping cap with a Bunch of grapes hanging down.
🍇 but i feel like the cup being bent makes the snocone illusion go away. you can see my experimentation with a single drupe weighing the cap down in the sketches. i kinda like it, it sells the sleepy feeling more.
🍇 the colors that got selected were pretty lucky. with getting greens and purples, the grape theme came together so nicely it was shocking! the prompt called for heterochromia as well. i considered flipping the colors for the earrings too, but felt it was too much. but its a guilty favorite. i made the eyebrows curl slightly to match the hat color curve. also it looks good somehow?!
🍇 is it a bad time to admit im not sure how to draw straight hair? i can never make ot look right (note: artist has textured hair...)
🍇 autumn is my fav season but i wasnt sure how to marry all these concepts together. she ended up looking like a tired art student rather than a witch.... maybe thats the true problem? too many ingredients in the art prompt. look at the list on the left!!!! her skirt is supposed to look better plaid with an olivey brown for stripes but i forgot.
🍇 im a sucker for giving characters weapons even if theres no real reason for them to have it. i like designing characters and weapons, my curse overtakes me often. its a meat tenderizer with a large spoon on the other end. its for crushing ice for more sno-cones of course!!! its hard to see, but i wrote "SNO B D" on the hammer part because it KIND OF sounds like the spoken aloud abbreviation of "NBD", sno' big deal. then we would laaaaugh and laugh....its not too clever. ha
there you have it....... i believe its a fine design but thats just it... its fine.. i like her for sure, but i like her so much its frustrating that shes not quite "herself".... ill probably strip her of some of the concepts she came with. its all for fun....