Next Up On The OC Front, This Is Lotu. A Deer-like Beast Imbued With The Energies Of Passion, Roaming

Next up on the OC front, this is Lotu. A deer-like beast imbued with the energies of passion, roaming throughout the sacred woods they call home. That chain's not a fashion statement, it's a reminder of their past hardships and loss at the hands of an enigmatic organization that attempted to extract those energies from their body. Suffice to say, it left them… well, so long as you aren't wearing a labcoat if you cross paths, they won't default to anger. Probably.

That's the drawing that Lotu came from. Like Cole, they began as just a random character, with the caption "Let not the fire of passion within you be chained!" After a while, I found the impetus to draw them once more, fielding friends for suggestions on what colors to use.

I haven't figured out if Lotu's sacred woods follow the seasons or are unlatched from time in some way, but either way it's a beautiful place to see. I don't do much with backgrounds, but the forests here are pretty nice if I do say so myself.

Oh, and one final thing: If you see Lotu looking like this…

…you are doomed, in one way or another.

Behold, a buggy!

LEGO's been a passion of mine since I was young, and though I don't often have the free time to build with it nowadays I still dabble in it from time to time. The physical buggy above is an old model, but the drawing's recent, of course.

I wonder if it would fit well in Ica's world, a nice way to move about the wastelands...

Why don't we start off with the guy helping out there? This here's Ghostie, one of my oldest characters. He's a science-focused kid from a small town on Pequan Island. He may be a bit hapless—heck, one wrong lesson may have spawned his nemesis—but he always tries his best, even when he's in over his head.

When I say old, I mean it; I based him off of a sprite in Game Maker version 6 when I got my hands on it ages ago, and he kinda grew on me. Over the years he gradually changed, gaining mitts, a tail, different eyes, the works. He's a charming little fellow, one I hope to bring to other mediums someday.

Hopefully he'll grow on all of you, too!

Here's two more of my many Pokemon—Chenille the Eldegoss and Glacáin the Aromatisse. I caught the latter after he used Attract on the former, and naturally I turned them into a couple.

Chenille's battle skill isn't much to write home about, but Glacain is tricky to fight against, what with Attract and the Bright Powder I have him carrying. He's remarkably survivable when things go right!

Onto the next character as I get things settled in. This is Ica, a little fellow who's young by the standards of his robot society. He's a mechanic by trade, but is also trying to prove himself in combat using a self-constructed battle mech he dubbed "Marchica." He's gotten pretty good at making repairs—not just because his mech gets dented up, but because he does, too.

Marchica—and Ica by extension—are one of my oldest OCs as it turns out; that drawing on the left up there is one from my elementary school days. A few years ago I redrew it, and provided a name to the pilot in the process. The design of Marchica itself still shows most signs of being a childhood redraw, though maybe in the future it will become more distinct.

Ica, on the other hand, was designed from the ground up since he was naught but a silhouette originally. He's proven a rather fun character to do poses with, and I've designed a few weapons for him to wield outside the mech—like a massive wrench and a blaster cannon. Given what dangers await in his world, he's going to need them...

Woomy! I'm a fan of the Splatoon series, though I only started with 2. I drew this in the leadup to Splatoon 3's Splatfest Premiere, doing the best I could to match the design of the Tableturf Battle cards using one of the ones that had been revealed at that time. Turned out pretty good, I think!

Honorable mentions were the Splattershot, Inkbrush, and Bamboozler for the weapon Ghostie would wield, though in the end I went with the Ink Roller. Maybe I'll finish the Splattershot drawing... someday.