ebiii, do u have any tips on designing an hsr oc? I just started designing mine (she's a halovian) and I have no clue what I'm doing 💔
HALOVIAN OC (* ´ ▽ ` *)‼️💌 YAYY YAY YAY
idk if i have any proper tips because my process is kind of all over the place, but personally i start with an idea that id really like to see ingame/enjoy making, if that makes sense !!
all my ocs are very self indulgent; june is the way she is because shes my self-insert and i like rock music as well as a bunch of other stuff, syaoran is half-borisin because i think werewolves are cool, lucy is .... like that .... because i love pyschological horror and mysteries 🎉
i decide on a vague theme or concept i like a lot first and then a bunch of stuff branches out from there (´∀｀*) that way, im sure that ill always love drawing and making content about them 🩷🌸 hence the doodles above lol
for june specifically it was REALLY DIFFICULT for me to decide on her final design since shes from penacony, and all the penacony characters are from a bunch of different backgrounds with different elements– compare this to characters from the xianzhou, for example, who have a much more cohesive aesthetic. even subfactions inside the xianzhou have more subtle design motifs between them if you look, like xueyi and hanya being part of the ten lords commission and having similar color palettes for their clothes !!
penacony has characters from .... all across the cosmos Σ(＞□＜) so i had to pick more specific characters that june would have visual ties to so she would look more 'part of the world'
im surprised people havent commented it yet since i was sure i was being super blatant, but june's coat colors are half inverted from sunday's. this ties into their lore while also tying them together visually.
she also has the most similar color palette to acheron, since they're both self-annihilators touched by the shadow of the nihility d(^-^) (ignore boothill hes stinky)
for designing halovian characters in particular .... she's based off of a raven, the same way that sunday and robin are based off of doves plus the symbolism and etc.
before i started daily boothill i was actually thinking of making 'halovian weekly' where id try to design a different halovian character every week based off of a specific bird, so i recommend also trying to find a bird species youd like to include in the design ^^ 🩷🩷
