PERFECT MACHINE

PERFECT MACHINE

couldn't decide what version is better so here's both.

inspired by the song: STARSET - Perfect Machine

aaaaand i'm intoxicated again because i'm stressed at uni

every fucking saturday goes like this

OC artists are so fucking cool. you made up some fellas and now they’re in a world

OC RANT PT 2!!

SO I ended the story at Baau being stuck at planet called Idge-Miaza. But what about the other characters? YOU'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT.

Larile, the humanoid eel lady, is a part of aerospace forces, and usually her responsibilities include diplomatic missions and transporting cargo and stuff. However, there has been no missions for her FOR MONTHS and all she did was doing paperwork until Baau was caught and sent here. The authorities thought that it would be reasonable to put the wild cat child under care of soft-spoken nonbelligerent fish lady. what could go wrong?

Larile didn't like the news, but the other available person was Alexis Galos, a general, a great tactician and a terrible person. He will have his moment later. So Larile thinks that if this scary dude will be responsible for Baau, he would end her life eventually. And Larile don't want to see more people being killed by him, so she complies and becomes a nanny for the 17 y.o. catgirl.

Larile is trying her best. She is a very kind person, however Baau is being Baau.

And the paperwork isn't going nowhere. She really needs a secretary. Robot can do the job, but Larile really dislikes the newest models, and she also likes to collect old things. Therefore, all things considered, she desides to go to the old underground robot scrapyard. With Baau, of course.

There are lots of robot parts lying around, huge piles of metal junk almost reach the ceiling and it's pitch dark. They spend almost two hours there, Larile trying to find a robot that is not rusty or torn arart, and Baau sneaking around and stealing small details such as screws. And eventually she is the one who finds a robot in a relatively good condition. They take him, drag him to the workshop and find out that he has a personality module litarally welded into him.

Note: personality module in this context is a small chip that goes inside the port at the back of the robot's head. This thing, as the name suggests, gives robots personality.

The technician warns them that it might affect the robot's behavior drastically and Larile is a bit worried, but Baau does not give a damn. So, they wake up this piece of junk and surprise surprise, he is a normal. Does his job, don't asks any questions right until he tries to connect to the network. He faints. Robots do not faint. Seconds later the robot turns on and nothing seems to change right until he starts to look after Baau. Larile would rather do her paperwork in peace and consequently, she delegated the duties of a nanny to the robot. It was a huge mistake, because robot's personality module activates and he starts to act like a charming ladies' man, a jester with a gory sense of humor and a self-centered bitch simultaneously. Baau finally has a friend and she is the first who pronounces the robot's designation on the badge that no one read.

Nick.

they're my favourite idiots.

Since then they spend a lot of time together, sneaking away from the hangar, pranking people, breaking stuff, causing chaos etc. Well, Baau does all that, and Nick covers for her. They're, like, besties. The impeccable rebellious duo.

After half a year Larile is finally assigned to a mission, she'll be far from Idge-Miaza for a long time, probably couple of months or more, because managing negotiations is harder than you think. She can't just leave Baau and Nick with no supervision, and therefore she needs to find someone who will take responsibility for looking after these two. Aaand she knows it's not the best idea but she turns to Alexis Galos.

Oh.

Oh no.

ooh, so sexy, so mysterious~~~ (i hate him so much i hope both sides of his pillow are always warm)

TO BE CONTINUED... the shit is about to go down

this part is not so big becuse i spent most of the time drawing illustrations for the post, but whatever, i'm proud that i managed to do this. the next part will be even shorter, i suppose...

i hope color coding the names will help you remember the characters. If you interested ofc

anyway gn yall

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

Fellas how do you deal with this

do you have any cyber/computer themed ones

🌐... !! CYBERC0R3 GR4PH1CS