good MORNING cloud retainer nation. shes so beautiful. yes im mourning the flared pants she couldve been so awesome... imo her dress design reminds me too much of ningguangs design T_T idk i still like it but like ughh i wish they wouldve branched out..!!! also i refused to color this. also yea thats hamayumi i liked it best w puzui's design
so ermm i had to draw Xianyun w Xueshe and Puzui!!! tbh i didnt think at all ab the cloud retainer leaks back when i made them but seeing her now im like ok. she certainly asexually reproduced via mitosis to make the twins :3 it def shifted their lore slightly but i think it gave me something new and fun 2 work with !! and helped flesh out their backstory..
i do want to change puzui's design a bit i think shes messy.. i also didnt make their hair have the teal undercolor because xueshe's love interest is xiao so i didnt want them to look too similar erm... and i think ill keep it that way !!! wtvr i make the rules yes i do IDK LOL this was jsut so silly
ok ill keep the brainrotting to a minimum but someone pleaaaase ask me ab these guys im so normal ab themm ahahahhahaa
theyre twins the boy is Xueshe and the girl is Puzui… they r Liyue characters :3 specifically illuminated beasts!
they r so tragic i think ive talked ab them a bit before but buddy ive written a like 4000+ word Ongoing masterdoc of their lore and design analysis. with several playlists. im not fucking around with these guys
basically they were. mitosis’d by Cloud Retainer and fought in the archon war and the cataclysm and ended up being Khaenri’ah sympathizers so Celestia astrally projected them into the Abyss for 500 years until they both nearly went insane and the Puzui DID go insane and lose all her memories and they break free during the upcomimg lantern rite so 😜 cant wait to see 4.4 play out and alter their lives
Xueshe’s design is waaay less thought out than Puzuis tbh i dont feel that he looks like a genshin character and i know i could do more to achieve that but. ykw xiao can have all the visual complexity in their relationship idc. um he kinda maybe has a hanfu shirt. his shirt could be tied up like hes doing archery but hes. a sword character. also hes supposed to have the same glove that Xiao does to hold their visions because i loove when matching/swapping/sharing items is used as a visual representation of a relationship idk. and he has a little fox friend named Nezha because hes a protection deity
Puzui’s has a lot of choices based on forget me nots (also called scorpion grass which influenced her hair) and me genuinely referencing hanfu and qipao.. altho ive come to the conclusion her qipao looks way more like an ao dai with the pants LOL um also her Huadian (forehead makeup) is supposed to be a forget me not and the dots on her brow and dimples are called Huadian or MianYe :3
the pibo (the silk behind Puzui) and the lingzhi (Xueshe’s headpiece) are used in folklore art and opera respectively but i thought that they would be a really interesting way to call back on how theyre like from a diff time period yk. even tho just their outfits do that but WTVRRR also the lingzhi is used for good looking generals in opera and ykw. he IS a good looking general.
theyre also classing pyro and cryo siblings yaaay overall theyre just designed to be opposites yet very similar you know how it is. when your sibling is your narrative foil when you and your sibling are doomed by the narrative
um their illuminated beast forms were also deisgned with chinese mythological creatures in mind… Puzui’s is loosely based on the Fuzhu and Xueshe’s is even more loosely based on the Tianma.. i just wanted a clydesdale ill be honest
YEAA thats def not their entire story ill circle back when 4.4 drops im just queuing a bunch of stuff rn in december. hi future people waoww
ermm day 13 yayy !! i was gonna do more with this but im not feeling well again so wtvrrr
another genshin oc heheee love my lil clown girl 🙏 her name is pogo and she works for the fatui .. vry similar story to lyney and lynette except she has no conscious !
this pallette was making me think of like.. pastel clowns.. ceramic clowns... vintage... what other adjectives apply here... idk i just mashed like 5 diff pinterest pics together.. she's looks so silly and fun in comparison to her actual design
day 11-12 yaaa umm.. way less polished than my last few ill say that much..
idk w the pallettes i was trying to go for a costume theme 🙏 finding diff costumes to fit each pallette was difficult.. saw the alice in wonderland vision in my head but couldnt pull it off the way i wanted to 💔 oh welll i got to draw dionysia and theo thats what matters 2 me 🙏
i actually don't remember much of the original alice in wonderland and most searches bring up the 2010 live action movie which. i also haven't seen. idk finding out ppl ship those 2 charas made me scream out loud in terror because i'm. drawing an aunt and her nephew [theo is in fact a cis man he's just a drag queen] anwayysss it was fun regardless i just think i was too reluctant to use the canon costumes as a base and thats where it fell apart TwT but the babydoll alice dress is a vision u see the vision right. [also peek my emoji edits ‼️]
errmmm did i miss most of backstory week :3 my bad :3 [all according to my plan] ummm its day 10 ^-^ pumpkin patch color pallette !!!
loooved this color pallete and i wanted to do diff costumes for each one idk why hehe!! took me a while to settle on one but i did my girl dee-dee as poison ivy 🙏 which is like funny because she IS a DC oc but she's just a lil guy :3 gawddd i love dee-dee she's so cute...
for any DCers out there she's a martian like M'gann but also idk much about DC so don't hold me to that
PHEWW ok this is like a truly unhinged au i wont lie. so basically a few months ago i got rlly into dcu robins and birdflash 😢😢😢 oh how i love bird flash. so 4 some reason i was like I need Wally to be in a Band STAT..!!! so i made him band members 😭😭😭😭
anyways their names in order of appearance are Ronnie (Veronica) and Dee-Dee, also Ronnie [ronnies whole bit is that she really loves fish and wears a fish tie a lot and also plays bass. like the song. but because bass. lol]
Ronnie AGAIN and Wally, Tori (Victoria, Veronica’s twin),
and here we have Noor, Dee-Dee and Atticus.. these 3 are poly and Atticus isnt in the band but he’s their biggest supporter. and the poly isnt a triangle btw Dee-Dee is dating both but Noor and Atticus arent dating theyre just like wow our gf is fucking weird. awesome. we are the luckiest ppl alive. high five
i didnt have much lore for them because idk dick grayson era lore that well. or any dcu lore for that matter. Dee-Dee is like maybe a martian ? everyone else is human idk
ive always imagined that the yj or jl or whichever part of it they’d be in during college doesnt know that Wally’s in the band. not in a bad way it just doesnt come up LOL
it was mostly an excuse to make playlists and dance in my room and daydream… i was calling them the tbirds in my head because Greasr ROTPL had just come out and i loooved New Cool. such a good song. idk what else to call them if not the tbirds
this is so self indulgent but i watched abd illustrates new video and i loved the fashion designer character soo much T_T Beau made me think of my own fontaine chara, Théo, who's like a .... performer lol? idk he does a lot of stuff... singing, dancing, theatre shows, events etc.. but i thought they would be fun together because Théo would probably seek out a fashion designer .. a lot ... if not for his productions then for his own personal wardrobe LOL
this is super rough omfg my apple pencil has been glitching like crazy lately.. can hardly draw for more than a few mins wout getting annoyed i have no idea whats causing it.. its not even old T_T maybe i dropped it too many times lol
OH MY GOD HIS LEG JUST CUTS OFF i forgot i was going to crop it um. i dont care thats too much work
day 3 OLD OCS!!!!! :33 these r some ummm angel/demon adjacent beings… forbidden love u know the deal… they get found out and separated and their punishment is to carry the sun and moon across the sky [shortened ver]
their names are Sunniva and Orion and i miss them sooo much… they were a collaborative effort w my writer friend and it was truly such a fun time 🙏
Sunni’s design is pretty close to her original one but Orion’s is a bit diff so 🙀 day 4 too i suppose.. i actually dunno if i’ve ever drawn them in color before
