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I've been loving all the 'Friends of Jimbo' updates for Balatro and I've been wanting to make one for myself with Madi. (And now that my comic is done I can do weird challenges again.)
I think I'm gonna do two more of these and try to actually mod it into the game as a 'Friends of Rachel' mod.
OC-tober Day 5: "Redesigned OC" (Another reupload day today.)
Madi was originally just a tattoo artist for Taylor but after developing her a bit more I felt like just another white girl side character didn't fit her as much.
So I redesigned her a bit, it was mostly in her story but I like drawing her so much more now too.
The younger Madi is from a story I did with her where I started redesigning her backstory and her character overall. I started with the white teen version and played with the idea of growing up with a hurt arm, but I eventually settled on her being black and being born needing a prosthetic arm. (Both of the teen Madi drawings are super good imo). And now her latest design is one of the ones I like drawing the most, especially doing art meme with her.
Treating today's OC-tober prompt of "symbolism" as an oc ask thing.
Colors: -For my main 4 Blanksford OC I definitely use colors to represent them. Gabby's orange, Aeri's yellow, Madi's pink, and Taylor's red. There's not too much symbolism about these colors in particular other than visual design though. The concept of using colors for OCs gets a bit less helpful the more you have though. I tend to use a purply-pink or a blueish-grey for side characters.
Songs: -I know some people are like crazy for OC playlists but that's just not how I usually listen to songs. I have occasionally heard a song and thought it'd be good for one of my OCs but it's super not common. The one that reminds me most of an OC for whatever reason is "Gravity Hero" by Rabbit Junk, making me think of Aeri.
Original Inspiration: -Most of my oldest OC are named after like high school college crushes of mine, but I didn't take any like character inspiration apart from name. Aeri is very Chloe Price (LiS) -coded and as a result Gabby often takes some inspiration from either Max or Rachel depending on the scene. Artemis is very much Batman inspired and I'm constantly having to remind myself her story is better when it's uniquely hers and not just Batman fanfic.
Core Traits: -When writing these characters I have a bunch of character traits that I keep in mind. For Aeri, she's always more scared than she lets on. Artemis wants to feel like she's in control, even if it means she's fooling herself. Taylor is overly trusting almost to a fault. Madi cares more for her friends than for herself. And Gabby doubts themself a lot when alone, but is easily empowered by their friends.
Today's OC-tober prompt of "Personality" seemed kinda open-ended so I just drew the Madi piece I've been neglecting for a bit and added a funny Taylor to it.
Oh oh oh!! I absolutely adore using my in-universe language's symbols to make unique emoticons.
OC-tober Day 9: "Relationships" Another reupload day today...
Gabby and Aeri are actually romantically together, but Madi and Taylor just have the queer platonic thing going on. They're all amazing characters and I love writing cute moments for them as couples.
Okay Tumblr, here's the Blanksford ref sheets I finally did for ArtFight. I'll have all my ArtFight cards and profile stuff ready tomorrow and then the fun can begin in a few days.
I'm so freaking excited for ArtFight!!!
It's Golden Week so apparently you have to draw one of your OCs in a golden bikini. I don't understand the trend but I'm always down for more fun OC art trends.
And Madi is looking fucking beautiful in this one. I've def popped off.
I fully plan on returning and finishing this tomorrow.
...but I wanted to take a break from Art Fight and draw one of my own OCs since I'm on an art kick right now. And I saw this crop-top hoodie, panties, stockings combo on bluesky and it felt so Madi and I wanted to draw it, and like always I got too caught up in the outfit and balancing the colors. (The Drawfee stream I was watching where Spencer Wan was there and they were all doing monochromatic shading on the same canvas didn't help.)
And yeah so somehow here's another purple-toned grayscale Madi V. art. Hopefully I actually render it in the same style as what I've been doing for Art Fight either tomorrow or the day after.
