Merry Cherry !
Cherrypick celebrating christmas ! I made this illustration as part of an art challenge between friends where we had to draw our ocs in this specific christmas dress. Obviously, I had a lot of fun with it ! Dresses are great and it gives me a good reason to draw Cherrypick again. Since the first refsheet I made of them in 2020, they've been a major character of mine, probably the one character people think about when they think of my art.
It's definitely kind of weird since I've been drawing some of my ocs for a decade (specifically Neth, which I drew a lot since my early teenage years) but it's good to have gotten rid of the whole burnout nonsense, as well as getting more active on social media art-wise. Cherrypick is so fun to draw and share about !
I also doodled a "behind the scenes" thing for tumblr specifically because tumblr is a much better art platform than instagram ever was. Introducing Rinabelle, she took the picture of her gf while they were goofing off in the snow. She was technically already introduced in my previous post, but I didn't even have her name yet. Now it's confirmed ! Her name is Rinabelle. Rinabelle ! Rinabelle. It really rings a bell.
I have been thinking a lot about their dynamics this last month, too.
Cherrypick likes to dissect statements & ideas all the time, it's also part of their comedy. They're very straight forward and love to poke holes into people's assumptions of random things, because it allows them to talk and they absolutely love talking. So much so, that they often end up stuck on a specific element of the subject, forgetting all others.
Rinabelle, on the other hand, is more cryptic. She works with a lot of callbacks to previous specific situations, in life as well as in comedy. Her mind goes places very fast, especially fueled by nostalgia or regret. She talks much less but the things she says usually have several layers to them, and her lack of focus creates a shockingly wide perspective she lives with.
They're a perfect match together, obviously. Rinabelle likes the sound of Cherrypick's monologues of endless specificity, and Cherrypick likes the resonant density of Rinabelle's brief remarks.