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My Trolls oc Genie learning how to style and care for baby Cooper's hair, with help from my other two oc's, Danny Drift the Disco troll and DJ Suki's older brother TJ. This took me forever, I still love it but by god was it a pain in the ass to draw six vastly different characters and a background with shading!

Love the end result, never doing this again.

#dreamworks trolls #trolls poppy #trolls dj suki #trolls oc #my art #Changing Tune

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This is a Rock troll band I made for one of my Trolls fanfics, the One Eyed Dragons! They're based on an old art project from primary school where I made a poster of a made up band, and when I went back through my old art books and found it again I realised they would make fantastic trolls characters.

From left to right we have Medusa the Metal troll and drummer, Tiger-I the lead guitarist and singer, his step brother and the bassist Rey Toro, and lastly we have the cross dressing keyboard player Alaric Adder!

I had a lot of fun drawing these four, and even though I made them for one specific fanfic (Changing Tune), and only Tiger-I plays a really significant roll in that story, I love all of them and plan to use them in other projects as well. I'll probably upload art of them individually and give them all proper bios another time, but for now this is all I need to get them out of my head and onto paper.

Edit: I went and changed the ref picture a little, I just got rid of the shading and made the background a gradient. I've been making a lot of Trolls character refs and they've all developed a pattern of no shading and gradient/pattern backgrounds so I wanted this one to match. Also the lore changed a little, Rey and Tiger are step brothers now, not half brothers.

#dreamworks trolls #trolls oc #Changing Tune #rock trolls

Introducing the Funk Trolls of Variety Village!

First on the list we have Dandy!

A fun loving and adventurous troll, Dandy grew up as an only child in a small land bound town in Funk territory. After he graduated Dandy convinced his best friend Hooper to come with him on a trip to the Hinterlands so that they could explore and see what is really out there. However their bus took a wrong turn and they ended up in the Deep Forest, where they and the rest of the passengers met the long lost Pop tribe, many of them choosing to stay after the bus was repaired, including Dandy! Now he woks as an artist, finding work mostly in the decoration business with frequent requests for prop work from the theatre club!

Next we have Hooper Ley!

Hooper is the opposite of his best friend Dandy in almost every way, calm, uncaring, generally quiet and content to just let life take him where it may. He grew up with many siblings and though he does miss them all, he finds great satisfaction in the myriad of simple labour type jobs he does for Variety Village. He joins in the calmer community activities like bongo sessions and poetry, and found himself growing fond of another Funk troll who was on that bus.

A doctor by the name Dr Marbleton.

As an accomplished general practitioner with expertise in other troll species, Dr Marbleton had been invited to work at a hospital in the Hinterlands capital city. However in the time between her bus' unexpected stop in the Deep Forest and when it was fixed, she learned a great many things about the Pop trolls and their village. Including the horrifying fact that out of 700+ trolls, there were only three medical professionals, one of whom never finished their training and another who was only a nurse (for now). Not to mention the many gaping holes in their medical knowledge and primitive equipment to work with. The Hinterlands had many medical professionals, as well as tools and thousands of medical texts, but these trolls had almost nothing and needed her more.

Dr Marbleton is a prodigy when it comes to medicine, and has the uncanny ability to keep a cool head in any medical emergency she comes across. However, her talents in other areas are extremely lacking, and if it doesn't involve surgery, diagnostics or prescriptions, then most any crisis will cause her to fumble and run around like a headless chicken. Being a doctor is the only thing she's good at, but at least she is really good at it.

And finally (my favorite) Copacetic!

Copacetic was a traveling trader who crash landed near the Deep Forest one day a few years before the bus carrying the other three arrived. Her ship had been too advanced for the Pop trolls to repair and out in the forest there simply wasn't any tools or materials appropriate for such advanced machinery. That and the fact Copacetic had arrived early on in the village's settlement, when they were still too fearful to travel far from the safe haven they found and escort her home, pushed Copacetic to stay in the village. She abandoned her job as a trader and instead became a mechanic like her parents, working with the fuzzlings and any other handy troll to improve the technology in the village. Her skill was average in the Funk tribe, but her travel experience also gives her a new perspective on things, and her days of having to make due with more primitive tools out in the world means that she has some creative ideas even on the standards of her tribe.

Despite the definition of her name, Copacetic is a very high strung individual. She is constantly stressed and frustrated, with an air of someone who is done with everybody's bullshit and just want's to go home. But she is surprisingly cooperative when working with others on projects, and seems to thrive in stressful situations, able to think on the fly and keep focused on her objective no matter what.

#dreamworks trolls #my art #trolls oc #Changing Tune #funk trolls #as some of you may know Hooper and Dandy are based on characters from trolls crazy party forest #but the other two I completely made up #Copacetic is my favorite because I've had her concept for the longest and so I had time to get attached #Dr Marbleton I made up a few days before I drew her ref (though I'd vaguely thought about a Funk troll doctor a few times)#also Funk trolls are so bizarre and hard to draw #you go into a drawing of them thinking that it will be simple #and then you redraw their faces several times because you can't get it to look right #and you watch clips of Cooper just to see his walk cycle cuz you don't know how his legs bend and you realise that they're freaks of nature #and you've been drawing them wrong this entire time #these drawings took me like 2-3 days and I know I have so many other ref sheets I'm working on or plan to make #Dreamworks Trolls brainrot is real and it has me in a chokehold

Just a doodle dump featuring some anatomy practice for different types of trolls, one of my oc's for Changing Tune, practice drawing Poppy because I had so much trouble with her for the longest time, and a nice little Broppy art.

#dreamworks trolls #Changing Tune #oc art #trolls poppy #trolls broppy #branch x poppy #my art

The final design for (some of) the main characters of Changing Tune, Queen Genie on the left, and her advisor/friend Bluebell on the right!

Genie was the first original character I made for this AU, and she has changed a lot in that time. She used to be silver with white wild hair that was held in a ponytail by a bright pink or yellow scrunchie (I could never decide), or I thought of making her yellow, in the end I decided on making her green with red hair.

Originally the story of Changing Tune was going to be about all the adults of the Pop tribe sending their children away on that last Trollstice and staying behind to distract the bergens. Genie was Peppy's niece (daughter of his sister) and therefore in charge of the children, as well as the one who would protect their string. In this AU having the string taken from them would turn all the adults grey and make them inedible.

I couldn't make that story idea work though, so it got thrown away. I may try to reuse elements of it in a different story, but Changing Tune will be going in a slightly different direction. The only similarity is that Genie is still Peppy's niece, but even then she isn't one by blood anymore, instead she's the daughter of his sister in law, not his sister by blood.

Here are some other references of her, they're pretty similar and I don't know where my first ever drawing of her is, but you can still see a few changes:

I decided to put her hair in a bun because I thought it gave her a more distinct silhouette (and for Lore reasons I can't mention yet), but the early concepts I had of her bun were both too hard to replicate, and felt too detailed for the style I was going for, so I changed it. Not only do the looping shapes make it easy to tell what kind of style the hair is in, but the heart shape is super cute! I also gave her those distinctive wavy fringe bits because I thought it would be cool to link Genie with her cousins, who both have fringes that they clearly got from their mother thanks to Peppy's lack of any fringe at all.

I picked the colour of her dress on a whim, because I felt like orange/yellow just went with her skin and hair, but I did change the style of the dress a few times. I knew I wanted something with short sleeves, and some pattern on it, but I couldn't decide on how that was supposed to look.

I honestly didn't put much thought into Bluebell's appearance, aside from her skin and hair colour, I didn't have any clear ideas of how I wanted her to look. In fact, the first drawing I did of her was only a few pages before this one, and she looks basically the same (I just realised I forgot their Hug-Time bracelets in the top pic). I did take a lot of her looks from things I saw people give Branch in their designs, like the fluff in her hair and the moles on her face, because she and Branch end up having a close relationship I thought it would be cute (he's not as isolated in this AU for many reasons, but he does still keep many of his survivalist and paranoid traits).

Here's the first sketch of her, an old and a young picture of her:

So yeah, I don't have much else to say about these two at the moment, but I'll be talking about them and other characters more later.

#my art #trolls #dreamworks trolls #Changing Tune #Genie #Bluebell #Ramble #I never knew how fun explaining the creative process could be #I will definitely be doing this more often

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