#rodney fletcher

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drawings from todayyy. still tweaking all my designs...

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ok i know ive been in the club straight up ignoring actover art challenges but i just discovered sketching with ten thousand colors and no pencils. photos have been edited to replicate the vibrancy of the colors and also. make the lines visible bc i will never ever have a goddamn iphone FUCK THAT.

happy fandoms everyone, im only maintagging this because i dont want to be a nuisance (mostly just my ocs....) go seek and find your blorbos

i almost want to to the comic like this tbh

btw that creature at the bottom right corner of the right photo is saying "keep eating the rich, its working!"

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day 5, redesigned oc. believe it or not, both scott and rodney were redesigned. they also used to be one person. that person looked like this

then i had a story in mind. this turned out to be rodneys original design.

then, after mitosis, they looked a little like this.

and then like this

and now!!

now they look like this!!!

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Hii!! I keep forgetting but I always wanted to ask! On your intro page(?) it mentioned a project of yours called ‘those days’?

I’m REEEEAAALLY interested on learning more about it!!! Lore drop?

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY FOR CENTURIES

so basically Those Days is a comic that i am currently making. its about two guys, Scott and Rodney who are both 58 and live in the midwest(because i do). Scotts sister Deb has just passed away so his great nephew, Danny comes down. The story is them telling him(and this chick named Candy, which im still figuring out how to introduce) about their life and how they met. I have over fifty issues written, but none released because after a while, it was kind of a chore, and i wasn't sure if anyone was interested! so THANK YOU SOOOOO MMUCH for asking about it!

Scott is based off of those "bad" kids that are actually really nice and are sort of vigilantes. Rodney is an easy bullying victim and even though he could totally do something about it, he doesnt.

this is very much a story about people and what they are and how your initial judgment is not always the correct assumption. its also very much how the key word in the last part of that is ALWAYS. its about life.

ill leave some character intros under the cut i case you want those too bc i could blab all day about them. scott and rodney may or may not be my sons. my boys. there will be art too. probably silly art. mostly the main group of characters. not their families though because i have barely drawn them(character design is tricky)

if you want to see all my silly drawings, they'll be tagged #those days comic or with the characters full name. but yeah THANK YOU FOR ASKING ABOUT THAT!!! I HAVE MOTIVATION NOW!!!! ok character rant under the more heeeheee

This is Scott

Scott has quite possibly the worst rbf ever and he looks like a scary mean guy. he steals his moms makeup because he can and he wears black eyeshadow 24/7. in reality, hes very nice and also has depression. hes a male MANIPULATED and has 6 semi terrible ex gfs. he is sort of homophobic at the beginning which is important to his lore. but even being a sad son of a bitch he can still beat the hell out of someone with a baseball bat. which leads to my next point. hes an adrenaline junkie. another design thing im slowly figuring out is simplifying his tattoos. theyre all on his torso and theyre all flowers. he loves flowers.

ROOOODNEYYYYY!!!!!

a lot of the time im trying to figure out how to draw him better tbh. Rodney has a prey animal stare. and he behaves much the same. hes pretty chubby but hes also fairly strong. he is very much a victim of child abuse but instead of becoming a bully, he just kinda gives up. he doesnt really have motivations outside of survival and hes not sure why. in fact, the primary reason he stuck around scott after meeting him was because scott believed him immediately after he said he didnt do something and made him feel safe. under the surface of being a prey animal, hes also incredibly angry. angry about a lot.

LUCY CAMPBELL EVERYBODY!!!

i dont draw her a lot...

Lucy is scotts lesbian ex gf and best friend ever. she kind of pushes them together because she knows too much. shes incredibly easy to talk to and people would confess to basically anything to her. design wise she also has a terrible rbf and DONT BE FOOLED!!! SCOTT STOLE HER LOOK WITH THE EYESHADOW!!! she also has lots of tattoos and actually gave scott all of his.

JORDAN AND DIANE (theyre kind of a set)

again. barely draw them and diane has had a few revisions.

diane and jordan are very much gay and in love. diane's family is like. the only immigrant family for miles. shes very nice but fairly cynical. shes very used to the notion that she has to find her way in the world and that if she doesnt fight, she wont survive. jordan is anxious as hell and dianes sister HATES her because she knows that jordan is a lesbian and is in love with diane. jordan also doesnt know why or how shes alive.

edward! ive only drawn him once.

eddie is lucys adopted brother. hes brilliant and silly. also gay as hell. idk if youve realized but almost none of these people are straight. edward isnt a very developed character because he is very much a supporting static character.

clyde and parker

clyde and parker are the two main members of scotts gang. its not really a gang but it might as well be. they dont really become important until the whole 1992 thing. youll find out. clyde was scotts best friend for a long time before he started hanging out with rodney. they have some very complicated history. diversity win! clyde finds out that he, too, is bisexual and gets with eddie! i dont know if ill wver bring that up in comic.

so thats basically the main cast of characters youll see in the comic. THANK YOU FOR ASKING!!! SORRY I YAPPED SO MUCH HAHA.

the comic will be release on a separate blog called @thosedayscomic there isnt really much on there except a mini comic that takes place around 1996, scott and rodneys thirties. its just scott getting home from work and going to sleep haha.

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ART CHALLENGE TIME!!! FOR OCTOBER!!! todays prompt for OCtober day one is my fav oc. but i cant pick between these two because theyre a set. i drew them all through mARTch as some may remember and their designs have improved since then. i really like scott and rodney. theyre easy to draw(most of the time) and are just narratively interesting. even from a writing perspective their dynamic is my favorite ever.

heres the prompts list for those who want it!! from our very own @/bweirdart

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oc posting

scott and rodney make me sick

and i keep finding new ways to incorporate past trauma into present life like im putting together a goddamn jigsaw puzzle. along with this is new reasons why it makes perfect sense that rodney is on the asexual spectrum. even though i CAN do whatever i want forever, im giving scott to the freaks because its almost integral to his character. like its Lore. lore that i might not go over. and also it adds to his kind of an asshole Lore too. his image. theyre literally my sons. i love them.

also we stan aro rep sarah because she doesnt even like anyone shes just bored as hell and her parents really want her to get married

i might post some comic draft highlights on the comic blog soon.

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days 6-9 cause im a busy bee

day six, past

some scotts over the many years.

scott is from a small town called nebula. he was mostly a good kid until 1981 when he got with a girl named vicky. she was pretty terrible.

day seven, likes (written)

Scott enjoys most popular 70s/80s music along with some newer stuff thrown in. He likes flowers, mostly lavender, zinnias, and azaleas. This is because it reminds him of his dad(alive until he's 30). His favorite food is pork chops. He likes to garden and spend time with his friends and family.

day eight, dislikes (written)

Scott doesn't like school. He's not good at any of that stuff, even when he puts in 110%. He also doesn't like mean people. He's very much a kind of vigilante. He hates potato and egg salad. He doesn't like tulips either. They're ugly.

day nine, relationships

Of course Scott and Rodney, high school sweethearts. Lucy and Vicky are actually two of Scott's less terrible ex gfs(until vicky gets back into addiction, but thats a story for another day) who are lesbians and in love. Russ and Calvin are from a different story, but they don't get together. Calvin can't take care of himself and so Russ takes care of him. Russ doesn't really have time for a relationship nor does he feel he needs one. Calvin is aroace. At one point Calvin thought maybe they should be a couple but they both felt weird about that and dropped it. And then Scott and Deb my favorite set of siblings ever. Deb is six years older than Scott and they are almost polar opposites. Their personalities are similar in a few ways, especially when they're together.

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day 15!!! complimentary colors!!!!!!