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.
Had some fun drawing Ye Olde Original Characters the last few days.
I drew my character, June, tonight, because I was thinking about her a lot recently and then a friend reblogged art of her and it tipped the scales in that direction, haha
She’s been with me since I was ten. Of course, she’s been through some shit in that time, but haven’t we all.
love-lays-bleeding asked:
76, banshee? Or anyone from swanish 💜
Banshee and a dialtone :)
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.
Marlon, from the same universe as Akira and Dylan, same village thing as Akira.
The most Marlon Looking image of him is actually in my friend’s possession, it was a gift I made for her back in the day and ended up capturing how we saw him better than his initial drawing - in the center here - just because he’d had time to BE something rather than just being kind of conjured up from parts like the first one. The other two are from a few years later, and the pencil one is closer to how he felt, but both are also from a weird detour we took in character, so I don’t even know. I could explain it, but it’s a hot mess. I know only that he wouldn’t have been able to have that nose prior to 2005 according to my anime marinated brain at the time.
I also talked a little about Marlon when I first posted him, so I won’t put you through any of that business again. It’s just been cool to see all these people with their oldschool selves.
Here’s Dylan, who is from the same story/universe as Akira, though Dylan lives in the river society there and Akira in the mountain one. This whole saga came from a camping trip in 2001, and, for some reason, I decided to draw Dylan every single year on the anniversary on his creation. So I have a very strange progression of this kid from 2001 to 2007, when I stopped just because I probably forgot, I dunno. His first image is in the top left, and next to that is 2003, which is both his best year in terms of how he looked and the image that felt the most like him when I looked back through everything. He’s always felt kind of childish and fun - he liked pretending to be a rock star in a universe that by all accounts should not even have them, so I don’t know what we’ll do with that if we decide to make tweaks to this - so the newest drawing is a bit impish in the face, haha.
He also got a re-allocation of his wardrobe. He’s been in this weird red and black thing for all these years that definitely was inspired by the same stuff that brought about Euro, but it stopped making sense ages ago, so now he’s angled more Ancient Egyptian with the kind of knee length kilt approach rather than like, a weird strip of leather chained to his chest because the person who created him wasn’t confident in their bare chest drawing abilities.
Akira, who I’ve talked about a little when I first posted the new image. From another story made with the same friend I did all this vampire business with.
The image on the bottom in profile is the first one and the only one I ever felt was successful in looking like the character. The current one looks like the right feeling now too, though I think I put too much color in the skin, haha.
I like Akira more as a little weird and off putting and threatening looking rather than the soft and pretty from the upper old images, but Akira was a favorite for a while, which meant eventually cutesy lovey romancey nonsense had to happen, regardless of character.
There was a lot more of Akira than I remember, haha.
Anyway, as with all the others, I went for the vibe and the visual more strongly associated with the character for me, which was that original drawing on the bottom. Like seeing old friends again, you know?
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.
