#headworlds

[mernolan]

Eiriogh, Lord of the Bonfire

[papermonkeyism]

Paper’s Map of (current) Headworlds

Oh gosh I have so many... In order of priority:

High priority worlds:

Wurr

Number one top dog actually in the process of being made for realsies, maybe about 1/3 on its way to being honest to goodness finished.  #wurr

The Herd

Dinahsawwrrssss! More art book-y stuff, less plot heavy. Originally planned as a series of calendars, but we’ll see how it goes. Following the life of the feathered shepherds (< still want to use that title somewhere in this project).  #The Herd

Simon’s zoo

Also art book, possibly in the form of year in the life of the zoo from the point of view of a human (Pony’s girlfriend most likely).  #Simon’s zoo

Lower priority worlds (that I still want to do someday, but less immediate):

That One Fantasy Setting I Still Don’t Have A Name For Pros: - I love these characters to bits, and would absolutely love to write stories of them Cons: - Kind of... light on the plot side ATM. #I STILL don’t have proper tag for this setting

Troll thing Pros: - TROLLS! I friggin’ love trolls - Art book-y thing again, so relatively easygoing project - Trolls - Vikingey setting: love the visuals, love the feeling, love everything - Trolls - Probably the easiest marketable thing I have - Have I mentioned how I love drawing trolls? Cons: - I stole Hulga and Tekla of the Murderburd setting from THIS setting, because I thought I could never get this setting done. I have since worked out the problems that prevented me from making this setting. So I’d need Hulga and Tekla back, except that their life would be different and Murderburd and Winny are banned from this setting. Bummer. - Seriously the Murderburd thing is the only thing keeping this one from being lifted to the high priority headworld classification. Maybe after I get the dinosaur thing bumped off to “done”?

Triaformica setting Pros: - TRIAFORMICA! Gosh I still love those things - Also excuse to have scifi elements (read: let’s have MORE fun playing with biology and anatomy!) Cons: - Plot, what plot? #triaformica

“Bloodbride” Pros: - Fantasy setting with flying dragon ships and sky pirates and magic and winged humanoids and stuff - Actually has some plot stuffs to back it up Cons: - This is my oldest still surviving headworld. It’s old. I made it up when I was still a teenager. Ohgosh I can still feel my teenager brain just oozing all over it...

A Fantasy Story Based On Vaguely Ancient Egypt-y Setting Pros: - Like the characters - Like the setting - Actually has story too! Cons: - Has no visual style. At all. What are the protagonists? Are they human? Elves? Some weird anthropomorphic animal thingies? Nobody knows.

Extraneous things (nice waste of time that’s just fun to draw but can’t ever be used to real storystuffs/making a living because not my intellectual property):

Murderburd setting Draco stryx ARPG. This would be the most fun thing ever, if it didn’t conflict with the troll setting. It did teach me how to watercolors, though, and I’ll forever be grateful for that.  #murderburding

The Fluffmuppet saga Kukuri ARPG. These things are just RIDICULOUSLY APPEALING for me to draw. Seriously, did somebody dig around in my brain to find all the most fun visuals to make me tick or something? #the fluffmuppet saga

Three different things with Pokémon in them - The “nuzlocke” (please stop asking about it, I don’t know if I continue it or not, but smothering my interest with constant passive aggressive demands isn’t making me want to) - The Bugcatcher Jim thing. I want to restart it and make it better.  #adventures of bugcatcher Jim - ????? (the likelyhood of me ever getting to make this are currently so low that I rather not advertise it)

Also other world scraps here and there, though nothing major. There was a dragon setting, but I don’t see that becoming too high priority anytime soon.

[heliosynchronisity]

Headworld Masterpost

mostly for my own reference but just compiling a list of all my current active original headworlds - i might also go thru and mass tag edit these titles onto appropriate posts in case people are interested in any of these.

This will not include fandoms, plus those are usually already tagged as such.

-Grimwood Academy of Magic (#grimwood) my dnd campaign turned "'not-dnd" novel. Currently on the backburner but my main ocs Aestereoth and Ninys belong to this.

-Fallen!Aestereoth AU (#Fallen!Aestereoth) - au of grimwood where Aestereoth is revealed to be a fallen aasimar.

-Whore Herd (#theHerd) - once a silly group character worldbuild now mostly just me and @theknifeclown's ocs. This is includes my characters Bolo and Alice, often drawn with Clown's characters Pixie and Charlie. slightly less active rn.

-Cult!Au (#cult au) - dark cult au of Bolo and Pixie.

-Extorium (#extorium) - NEW god worldbuild, mostly a mature setting so most stuff for this will be over on my AD. Includes my characters Auria, Lyon and Zerachiel. I plan on having this be open for AU branching too. One AU already in development is basically the same world plus Clown's characters Joji and Safirona and another one of mine called Taj. Don't have a name for that AU just yet. (tho working title is Joji AU)

honestly my doc ock fic worldbuild is practically completely original at this point lmfao, but its tagged as such so i dont think i need to add it.

nnnnyok bye

[dawable-head-space]

I have too many head worlds help meee

Like after figuring them all out and somewhat organizing into categories I have concluded that I have:

5 with defined stories

between 7-12 that have characters/species/histories/lore that could -become- stories

and at least 6 that are just cool concepts for a planet/ universe

tempted to make a seperate blog talking about them so I can get it more defined and organized, but I also would be happy with just talking about them if anyone is interested *wink wink nudge nudge*

[torntethers]

What is a headworld? I see a few artists mention them, but I'm never all that sure

Otherwise known as a paracosm, and apparently in the industry they just put it under the IP umbrella a lot, which is boring af. It’s a world you build up in your mind with your own characters, places, stories and experiences. A known example is Harry Potter, which is JK Rowling’s headworld/paracosm. 

[outer-head-space]

Shelly Bell’s team-mate/friend Hells Kells (rhyming names are common among monster-folk) is an example of how “Front-Liners” are supposed to look like.

Not that it has really clouded Shelly’s perception of her bigger and younger partner, anyone who takes her seriously is a loyal and well-kept firend.

Hells also enjoys the companionship, I mean, have you heard Shelly’s impression of the Team Coordinator? How one can produce such a low bellow with such a small body will always be a mystery.

[outer-head-space]

I think my answer to the question “do I have enough stories?” will always be no.

These are some designs I have for a story that actually used to be an old forum adventure a long time ago, though now im working on turning it into a proper story (with a real ending and everything! I have it all written out!!)

Now its time to see if I can keep to my guns and give these characters some life

[outer-head-space]

Speaking of shadowling type characters, behold Zhir, they have been a character for a long time without a official design, so i decided to give them something that can be molded to fit a few different forms 

(none of which are shown because i’mma fool)

They are kinda a un-official god of death/life in one of my headworlds but besides that he tends to make cameos in my other stuff