This Is One Of The First Concept Arts I Made For The Swatch In My AU. When I Get An Idea I Usually Tend

This is one of the first concept arts I made for the Swatch in my AU. When I get an idea I usually tend to draw it and while I draw I fleshen out the story behind the idea in my head before actually writing about it.

For context, in my visual novel, many Darkners has creative in-depth backstories, and Swatch and the Swatchlings are not an exception. In this case here he is seen at the beginning of his career before becoming the head butler of Queen. All the Swatchlings were "born" from him (by means explained in the plot). He took good care of them and made sure to turn them into well trained butlers before they became the strapping servants other people grew to love to have around. They are like 28 Swatchlings, all with their own personalities, their own names, boons and flaws. Though they still change colour depending of the mood and other external factors, they all have fixed colours for their personalities. Their names are:

🟥 RED (Marama, Merlot, Carignan, Tempranillo) 🟧 ORANGE (Tartufo, Profiterole, *Tiramisu, *Zuccoto) 🟨 YELLOW (Ricotta, Caciocavallo, Ericino, Gorgonzola) 🟩 GREEN (Renet, Poirot, Chou, *Fenouil) ☄️ CYAN (Pierrot, Arlecchino) 🟦 BLUE (Frisco, Glace, *Ciel, *Brise) 🟪 VIOLET (Adonis, Patroklos, *Tartaglia, *Antipatros) 🌸 PINK (Pulcinella, Colombina)

((* the ones not shown on the picture because of being an early concept picture and I was still wondering about each of them))

The rainbow marks on Swatch's body are the scars left by the wires of Queen from the time she managed to "tame" him... The masks were created by Tasque Manager to curb their feral natures, as per orders of Queen.

For everything else, at least it was a first step into turning my AU ideas into a more visible form. It motivates me to go forward, and to practice more digital art. I still have one more concept art of Swatch to share. Will post it later.

SWEET BUT BRITTLE

“(…) Like an arrangement made in Heaven, not even drudgery was able to choke our spirits. (...) However, even that would be sent to the chopping block, as my obsolescence loomed closer while my bottom line took a big dip into the reds…” — Spam

Well, it's a me again. I couldn't finish the pic on time yesterday so I tried my best to commit to learn how to paint glass today, and wanted to turn the practice into a concept-art of the characters of my visual-novel (even if it's just symbolical in its cute stylization). I think my glass material didn't turn out too shabby 🤔 It was worth the attempt though! 😅

If you don't know yet, is Sears (Blue Addison) and Spamton from before when they both lived together as room-mates, because Spamton back in then couldn't afford his own flat with his dwindling savings and Sears allowed him to crash in his apartment, up until the day their circle of co-workers/friends split with Spamton, prompting him to leave behind that part of the city and one of his best friends forever 😬

The rest is history.

This was another concept art of how Swatch looked without the mask. He still retains some of his former feral traits, but are more tame compared to his original EXCEPTION form, monsters that were queued for deletion as they were driven mad by pure undiluted Chaos when the Dark Fountain turned their original forms into Darkners.

This time it just shows how the mask (created by Tasque Manager to curb the feral nature of Swatch) actually hides a more fearsome countenance. His body is Darkness (as all Darkners are) sequestering all the colours of the light inside his body. With the mask on, all that storm of light gets balanced and his thoughts gets clearer, returning him to a more polite and suave demeanour (or as Tasque Manager would say, to a more "ORDERly manner"). Tasque Manager is charged to keep an eye out for him all the time, and to perform maintenance on the mask now and then to make sure the virus inside Swatch didn't manage to damage it.

I also learnt a little how to make the rainbow in him to look more hand-made and less procedural. At first I was using gradients, but it didn't look right to me so I made the stripes by hand. It was a nice experience to have 😊

A small question and a lil update

Today hopefully I'll finally be able to finish and upload the character profile of Sears (the Blue Addison). The next in the queue should be Joel which is the Pink Addison of the group of co-workers that is pivotal to the events from Spam's flashback and during the epilogue of Season 1. After that Genie the Yellow Addison and that will complete the pivotal triad of the plot. The rest of the Addison co-workers will follow suit with the character profiles but they weren't as impactful to Spam as these other three, hence the low priority.

Also, it came to my attention after perusing some blogs that there is some roleplay activity with characters that have their own blogs. People can send them questions and the author replies in character and sometimes with a little cool something thrown in between. Like I already had the idea of replying in character if asked through the "Question the Darkner" button, and I like the idea of increasing engagement with followers and other randoms if they can have me (and are polite while doing so). However, I had this dilemma of if making a separate blog just for Spwatchton and company or keep using this blog and make a few adjustments so that you can Ask questions to any of the characters of my AU (yes even to that White Addison called Velveeta 👀)

I think it would be more tidy if I keep everything in the same blog, because the moment I make more blogs for each one, my mind will break in the sparsecity of all of it (and I has the attention span of a low sodium can of Spam). I better centralize the Ask so that others don't need to run to the specific blog to speak to their favourite character, me thonks. (the DIRECTOR is also part of the cast and represents me as the author so if you have any questions for the DIRECTOR those questions will be addressed directly to me)

Just me mussing a little about increasing a lil bit the engagement in a more open manner 🤔Also this week we should know if we land a new job or not and if not... well, guess we'll be [[ROYALLY SCREWED]] until next week (because nobody hires on weekends) <slumps back in defeat>

"In the beginning...

...only the haze of dead decaying computers was his only company."

Just setting up the account where I should publish updates on the progress of this AU.

Don't mind the current emptiness. I can only work on it on my spare-time, which nowadays is scarce because of crippling pits of debt.

Be patient and hope you will like what I post in the future.

It's been another while since I uploaded something. The animation is going slow as I'm also multitasking with commissions, and I just wanted to burn steam doing something else that sprung in my mind. Just an overly-stylized Spwatchton with a weird background experiment, nothing too fancy. I'm still brainstorming about how to represent the Creation powers he shares with Swatch 🤔

((edited because I forgot a few tags -- you know what? let's add something more in-line with the visual novel conceptualization -- Spamton after the data hijacking still can't forget certain things from his past (like the Angel) and that still haunts him and produces monsters inside his dreams and sometimes by accident during their waking hours. Good thing that the head butler is there to pull the leash on Spamton in order to avoid him to fall to the amounting ruin of his past self, least they both fall together into the abyss, and Swatch the last thing he wants is to lose the only thing that keeps the monster inside himself at bay 👀))

(([[SACRÉ CUNGADERO]] today I can't type apparently -- corrected typos))