How far would you go to protect those you love? And after all is said and done, do you think they would ever forgive you?
I'm actually a huge fan of how much conflict Cozzie was* causing in the plot. It's been a while since we got some real stakes in the story, and even though I think that Carme and Moon are probably gonna be fine, the sheer amount of danger they're in is great.
This question is always so interesting when it comes up in zombie media. In some ways, Cozzie reminded* me of Joel from The Last Of Us or Kenny from TWDG, but I cannot go into more detail without spoiling either game LMAO (Joel almost 100%, Kenny is a bit of a looser correlation). Sun, Moon and co. are just unfortunate enough to be an outsider perspective to this archetype. That's why I like Cossy despite also loving to see everyone dunking on him cause he 100% deserves it -- like yeah he did ALL that shit bro, get his ass.
*every instance of this is me coming back and changing present tense I lowk didnât expect him to die this fast
Extras:
Contemplation.
Genuinely was on Cossy's side until that episode, like Moon WAS being insensitive about the idea that Cossy might just not want to kill one of his last remaining family members, but I fear attempted murder is worse than being an ass. (Iâm glad that Carme is still trying to keep him from keeping the Infected Eclipse, cause Moon talks about him like heâs a little plant Cossy asked them to take care of, but we know he has some level of consciousness. He is at times able to string together coherent thoughts (like when he said âI canât stop itâ when attacking Moon))
Also I gonna trace Cossy's face over the meme 1-1 like I usually do, but I genuinely didn't even know where to start, literally no part of her face or expression fits him and he just ended up looking like Megamind's lost twin </3.
Speedpaint:
This background is actually very similar to what I was trying to do with that Folly piece a while back, though that ended up a lot different than what I initially envisioned. So for this one I took out 20 refs and stared at em.
("Military olive is my least favourite colour which is why I don't use it in my art" sighs in great sadness and despair)
Song:
"It goes without saying -- It's already gone -- It's written all over you"
Get punked! the Tyrant 'leak' from stream on 5/17 was faked and planned out a month in advance; we were trying to mimic Alex Hirsch's leak to give folks something to talk about. Thanks to a couple folks on socials who were directly asked to help spread it!
We might've let things go longer until Davis was back to help reveal the ruse, but folks were just too dedicated to being respectful of the VAs and NOT spreading the 'info' and screenshots, so it seemed to have run its course instead of sparking theorizing/conversation like we thought. So like, thank you! That's so sweet, if the leak was real we'd really appreciate that response! But in this specific case, god dammit! </3
We got an outfit SOTW! I wanted to make outfits for a bunch of characters, but the second piece is a bit rougher cause my motivation has been a bit low. We got the main couple and the third wheels.
I was gonna do a lil silly thing w the Bloodmoons so they have an outfit below, I'll do it later in a non-SOTW fashion.
There are references below, but I would like to clarify that they are simply to showcase the outfits and not part of the submission:
I like how the refs turned out, but they aren't submissions because for Rosie and Nebula I used older refs as a base, and I'm pretty sure that is against the rules for SOTW! (I used the same base for Rosie as I did in the Glamrock Rosie design, I made a blank base there specifically to simplify designing outfits for her XD)
Rosie is dressed as a romantic goth, Nebula is just wearing a simple comfy outfit, Terra is dressed cottagecore style, Aries is boho-inspired, Cosmos is wearing. An outfit. And the Blood Twins are wearing a grunge look.
(I genuinely dunno how to categorise Cosmos' outfit, I'm terrible at distinguishing masc fashion styles, one of the refs I used is labeled "cutecore" though)
I just realised Rosie isn't in scale I think. But she's also in huge platforms so maybe?? The resulting implication if she is out of scale is that she's tiny without platforms, which is very funny.
I wasn't gonna draw Cosmos, but I noticed Aries wearing teal kind of made her match Cosmos' colour scheme. so I wanted them to wear her main colour as well ^^ colour exchange.
Sketches:
Some of the concepting sketches I liked.
Speedpaint:
Another 2-in-1!
Music:
"Everything is blue - his pills, his hands, his jeans -- and now I'm covered in the colours, pulled apart at the seams"
That's pretty much the only reason why I picked this song.