A flock of vampire brother OCs upon request of my friend A. Testing more marker stuff. Already stuff I would have done differently, but enjoying these immensely.
Original character drawings I did recently for the world I share with a friend. :)
Other flavors of falling asleep doodles are less “i like that this app lets me smear paint blobs” and more, I draw faces and eyes that get faces attached to them and current favorite original character nonsense
Birthday gift a month late for my friend Amy. Our characters Xel (mine, purple genderless demon) and Cicero (hers, snake man from space) that we made together 20 years ago and have been revitalizing for the last few months. I spent Friday at her house making this for her while she worked from home.
My doll of my character Xel is going well, I’m so excited. My friend and I had a party with dolls and pizza last night and she made this first template of Xel’s bodysuit. I’m just so pleased with how they’re coming along so here’s a scroll through where they’ve been.
There are approximately 15 of you who have been rad about humoring my urge to talk about my vintage character junk The Whole Day, many thanks.
There are still a few strays, so you are in for a few more, I am just both taking a break and finding more obscure images. That IS all the vampires, though, so.
It’s been interesting exploring the kind of things that keep coming up over and over again when I go through sort of the bare-bones version of what these people are. My friend’s boyfriend listened to her recounting some of the stories and trying to explain who some of these people were in relation to each other because he noticed she was suddenly really absorbed in a lot of really terrible old drawings and chat logs and wanted to know what on Earth was going on. At least 3 of the characters I posted had accidental children and he asked her, “Why is unplanned pregnancy a major theme in your work?”
And I heard it and was kind of horrified like oh my God he’s right I never would have described it that way, I feel so gross, why were babies a thing????
And then, flawlessly, she told him, “Because we never figured out why you would have them on purpose.”
I laughed so fucking hard but I was like oh my God, that’s IT, this is the truest thing, the only person having children on purpose is Silvana and she’s Saving Her Species
Anyway there’s some more words to give you a break from all of the other words
As something of an intermission, this is proper Rikai vibes:
The haters shirt was a joke but now we both think of it as a very important piece of Rikai history, so there it is.
+ girlfriend Lily
Thanks to coming to this sample mix of stuff from like 8 years ago and stuff from last week in order to properly look at a hipster vampire twin.
For the sake of completion of the set of children (thus far, that are my characters…), the twins, Reed and then Rikai. They’d get a post each if they had more background than the pencil you see there but since they don’t I’m committing cardinal twin sin and putting them in a post together. They don’t have an extensive ugly history to showcase because they were drawn, if I am being very generous, Three Times in the early 2000s, when they were the newest additions and were children with nothing defining or interesting as traits.
2011/2012 happened and we wanted to have like a giant vampire revival, and the twins (though primarily Rikai) got to be spearheads for a lot of it. So since time had passed, I got to just make them like 21 with no design baggage.
They have two much younger sisters.
Can confidently report that Rikai is the current favorite member of this family. Proooobably more of him in the near future.
Here they are in 2011 or 2012, whenever it was that I pulled this together for their first actual colored and proper drawing after being non-beings for a decade:
Rikai left and Reed right.
and here’s them being creepy fuckers also from 2012 or whenever because you know I gotta get that in there too
Hipster vampires make me smile, I don’t know what to tell you.
Remember when I said the theme was making people more monstrous
This is Corinth, he’s child #3 of Silvana and Snake Alien Man and he’s gone from sad pathetic super innocent and fragile anime boy to being a revivified corpse with awkward mannerisms and random violent impulses when near people he can eat, so Improvement.
I cannot, cannot, Can Not, stress how many pictures of Corinth exist in which he is watching over his fucking alien vampire hybrid family as a damn angel. It’s The Worst, I leafed through them a week or two ago and wanted to perish myself. I have included none of them here and cheated instead with the colored image from 2005 instead of more raw Actively Doing This energy from 1999-2002 because uuuugh
Anyway, Corinth was sort of the first exploration of ‘lol, wow, our species were not meant to have children, huh,’ that I did (his older sister Lydia would also be a later victim of this, but she stayed healthier longer). He just was weak and a bit frail and not as strong as he should have been, all that kind of thing. Back in the day, I think I just wanted sad pretty and fluffy. And I think I may have intended him just to always be slightly broken and wise and beautiful (he was the one with most resemblance to Silvana) or something, but even back then I decided fuck that, Imma kill him.
And so he was just Dead for years, both inside the story and out here in real life ‘what are we doing with this?’ land. And this put a dent in Silvana’s ability to do other things, she was just obsessed with the loss. I have a picture of her cradling Corinth’s bones while a more recent baby sits nearby, it was a big deal.
But it’s vampires and space aliens and magic and shit, so even if you are mummified remains, you know how it is, you have a shot. Things involving blood and his parents’ research and contributions from other even weirder supernatural species were involved and rebuilt Corinth from bones up. But there’s consequences for being like 90% alive, so while he’s steadier and stronger now, he’s kind of a little dried out looking and he’s never not hungry. He just requires a constant energy input to keep Being and he’s definitely attacked some human/mortal spouses of relatives. He talks strangely, expressions and things just kind of malfunction occasionally. Vision definitely did not improve from pre-death. He’s still very bright and arguably the kindest of the children, but he’s dangerous.
So uh, yeah, I like him a lot more now, hahaha.
Color scheme-wise, he was always in like the flowy white and blue pure pretty anime boy bullshit, so I went with greens, browns, and gold instead. Both being a little bit dead and his father’s green blood contribute to his overall coloring.
Except for the red jewel. All of Silvana’s children have a red jewel. It’s just how it is.
This is Euro, and he’s one of those cases where the old anime look was both repulsive and iconic to me and it was hard to reconcile. I have so many things no one gives a shit about to say about this guy, damn.
Euro is Silvana’s second child with the giant snake alien man, who has ‘genetically kind of fucked up for his species’ red hair. Normal hair colors for that species is black, which was how I justified Lydia, who is Euro’s older sister mostly because I was 13 and I said so. They’re all a big stack of un-aging supernatural alien creatures and some shit, so they’re all just going about their business living forever young and what not, hence no one bothering to look proportionally aged at this point in things.
Anyway, Euro was my favorite gothy trash disaster character back in the day, definitely eclipsing my prior enjoyment of his sister, and he got a significantly large amount of character ‘up-time’ in comparison to many of my characters, not just his sister. Lydia was something I enjoyed in my own time and in my own brain, but Euro interacted with the whole story, which was a collaboration with my friend. So he often feels like the real oldest child to us, because Lydia was just some aesthetic fun I was having and hadn’t reconciled with the actual narrative. Anyway, whatever, we fixed that.
Euro was highly influenced by the gothy dress up dolls I was downloading at the time, and one of the images I included here is the one I actually made of him. His look is both ridiculous and appealing in a revealing 2002 Hot Topic kind of way. Most of the time in current visions of the thing, he’s wearing a lot of extravagantly fancy nonsense, and the insertion of some lace inside the bell sleeves is kind of a call to that, but in my head, he always looks like some hazy version of the full body thing from 2002. Part of his character is enjoying a lot of over the top or expensive historically gothy bitch fashion, so this isn’t totally out of line, haha. And so, since I knew I was going to have to change the other largest thing about him, I let the outfit stay with the minorest of adjustments.
Because the palm tree hair. It’s like an iconic shape for him. We made stick figure drawings making fun of our own overdramatic plots and Euro was so easily just like palm tree shape with a pony tail that, even if it’s embarrassing to look at and not really in line with the look I was going for, I was looking for a way to translate it. I ended up with these layers in this hair, and length he can definitely still pony tail, which I pulled a piece forward for in this drawing. Because I couldn’t draw a piece of it just floating out from behind him like I used to, haha.
dress like the goth bitch you desperately wanted to be when you were 13 and then let all the characters you made then stay that way too
