IM DRAWING BABY FRESH FACED OCTAVIAN

IM DRAWING BABY FRESH FACED OCTAVIAN

not like baby-baby but little stick bug 12 year old Octavian,

This was really quick and fast because I just wanted to have fun and HEHEHEH

Octavian is so silly and i guess this qualifies as concept art for baby Octavian

Sorry the shading might look a little weird on some parts I was on a multiply layer and just messing around

Anyway I haven’t posted art in a while but like whatever, it’s my page when have I ever been concistent

Octavian!

Do I know what I am going to write in this? Vaguely. More headcanons because I want to take a break from that rendering of Octavian because I want to work and make something better than putting effort into something I won’t be proud of or whatever.

Also I just want to keep talking about him but whatever,

Octavian never been outside of Camp Jupiter/New Rome is canon in my mind. There have been very few times he has been outside the little bubble, which were,

The Wolf House: where he really just stayed close to the house (obvi. Course I’d love to talk more about the exacts but since we get no information about the wolf house though it’d be a pretty good way to start SoN and then seamlessly blend us into a timeskip of the Gorgon chase but whatever- we are given no information about the wolf house either and aaaaa-) but the Wolf House Octavian mentality was survive through with his wits and try to survive enough to run out of there as soon as possible when he has the training done.

His quest: we get no information on it, but we know that he had to do a quest to become a Centurion (Can confirm this is a rule, check the Senate scene near the beginning, I believe it was Larry the legionnaire that yelled it) though we also, sadly, get no indication what this question was. But I’d like to introduce the idea that it was a duo quest with Michael and Octavian and they became Centurions together (I’ll probably re-read this and then add more on later) but I’d assume this Question also has them steeped pretty deep into the mythological side of the world and they didn’t get much down time. But what little of the mortal world Octavian saw he thought was pretty cool- though he still thinks New Rome looks better. (Because if anyone walks up to me and says the current era of architecture we’re in is better than anything that predates the freaking 1950’s is lying to me and trying to make me buy a house. We have fallen as a society when we started thinking ultra minimalist boring homes that are devoid of any depth or visual interest was the best route to go for our buildings. But that’s another rant from me for another day-)

Siege of Mt.Tam: they had to travel the smallest bit for this but again, didn’t interact with the mortal world much, they all stayed pretty self contained to the temporary camp and the mountain itself.

The cross country trip to go attack the Greeks: this is the one we’re shown in canon or whatever. But this was probably the most chaotic of the times that Octavian had been out of Camp. It was a lot to deal with, really overwhelming to be stuck with everyone with no where to move or anything. But this would be the most he would really interact with stuff like fast food chains, gas stations, all the stuff. And New York, that was a thing that happened. I believe they briefly passed through New York (we know that at some point they’re inside of New York from the Rachel scene if I remember properly) and that meant Hotels, it was similar enough to the barracks that it was fine. Though I think that the whiplash from New Rome to this made Octavian a lot more hesitant about stuff like these cities. He likes modern culture to some extent (insert another Build-a-bear joke. And if anyone asks, I believe he totally gets them delivered to calcedott tunnel instead of going out to a physical store. He has never had the experience and childlike splendor of making one that that needs to change.)

Anyway yeah. I would also like to say that Octavian is okay on a string instrument. However I would like to say that he put all his eggs into one figurative basket when he was a small child by learning one full song only. A 6 year old Octavian skipped over learning reading notes and whatever and just copying the motions until it sounded okay. He doesn’t really know how to read stuff like notes or whatever but has a pretty okay sense of Rhythm.

Don’t ask him to dance though. Octavian may look a little more elegant moving around or fighting but he is an actual newborn giraffe.

Okay that’s all I have for now. Have a rad time and I’ll get out the next couple passes of the CJ map.

IT HAPPENED THE MAP IS DONE!!

I finished inking the final version of the Camp Jupiter map!!!! AHAHDHAHAHAHAH >:D I haven’t colored it yet but honestly right now that’s the last of my worries because I WANNA TALK ABOUT IT :3

This is the bland, un-touched (I’ll go in and fix some of those wonky lines probably) of my rendition of the Camp Jupiter map based on a very basic research of Ancient Roman legionary camps, sort-of information from the books, and my own noggin!

You can see that all of it is numbered, and that’s because I am listing out what everything is. Which is right below,

Porta Praetoria; the Porta Praetoria is the gate located on the north wall, connected to the Via Praetoria and would’ve been the main gate (still debating on if that’s true because of the orientation I have for Camp Jupiter and its surroundings)

Porta Principalis Sinistra; left main gate, the one that leads out to the field of mars, temple hill, and New Rome

Porta Principalis dextra; the opposite to the Porta Principalis Sinistra- on the right side of the wall. Faces Calcedott(?) tunnel, the deepest part of the little Tiber, fun stuff.

Porta Decumana; South Gate, opposite to the Porta Praetoria, also connects a road to the temple hill but it’s a longer route.

Via Quintana; separates the Retentura from the Latera Praetorrii(?) doesn’t lead to any gates and I added it in for the organizational aspect of camp.

Via Praetoria/Via decumana; forgot to label Via Decumana but the two combine to be the main vertical road from the Porta Praetoria to the Porta Decumana- each start at their respective gates and end once they hit the Principa.

Via Principalis; the road that connects the Principalis Sinistra and Principalis Dextra gates, separates the Praetentura and Latera Praetorrii.

Cohort One Barracks; like the name, they are the 1st cohort’s barracks, I chose to put them there as their status as the ‘special troops’ inside my headcanon, and this is where the most important cohort and the special troop barracks or whatever would be located

Cohort 2 barracks; similar reasonings to Cohort 1, also just wanted things to look somewhat symmetrical, and it worked to space out all the buildings.

Bathhouses; the Praetentura (this area of Camp) would’ve been where the Bathhouses were in permanent camps so I put them there, and they helped balance out the space. We all know what the bathhouses are- I still have to think about how they operate but for now I’m pushing that to the bottom of my list!

Principa; know that I had 2 full pages of notes on the Principa that was from fort Nijmegen and an article I read on that. But it’s the main center of operations, wasn’t actually located directly where the roads met (from my discoveries and the style of Roman Camp I was deciding to base this off) located in the Latera Praetorrii. It houses where the Praetor’s sleep (makes it a lot simpiler versus whatever was happening in the books because I couldn’t tell you where Rick decided to put them) it housed a great hall, the Aedes- where the standards and legion emblems would’ve been stored. And the Aerarium(treasury room thingy) would’ve been in there. It would’ve had four walls and a courtyard in the center, but I chose to just block out the buildings so for the moment it is not shown.

Cafeteria/dining hall thing; it was mentioned in the books and felt significant enough that I kept it in. During my research I didn’t find any word about a specific building dedicated to eating meals, so I just slapped it next to the Principa and called it a day.

Hospital; alternatively called the the Valitudinarium(?) and it’s as you guessed. A hospital, not much information I could give because we know what Hospitals are- though I’d like to give the hc statistic that the 3rd cohort has the highest number of legionnaires that work as medics.

Armories; they balance out the Latera Praetorrii, would’ve been put there. And I assume at the very least how I depicted them they’d be multistoried(?) or have several floors for the cohorts and the types of weapons and things.

3rd cohort barracks; the barracks for the 3rd cohort, placed in the Retentura(? I don’t want to go back to look at how it’s spelled for the moment) where the more basic common cohorts would’ve been, opposite to the 4th cohorts to balance it out.

4th cohort barracks; same as the 3rd cohort. I’ll go more in detail in a barracks specific post over the interior n stuff but yeah :3

5th cohort barracks; actually swapped places with the 2nd cohort barracks sometimes during the early 90s after Varus and the 5th lost the standard and the legion saw them as the worst cohort (remember it was mentioned that back it in the 80’s they were said to be the best? I like that plot line) but also was the bane of my existence to put somewhere.

Horreum; the food storage area of Camp, probably more than pictured but for the sake of simplicity one is shown. Stores the food used in the Dining hall and stuff.

Also the Horreum, accidentally labeled it as a different building lol.

The Stables; technically they would’ve been inside of the Latera Praetorrii but for space and organization reasons I put it opposite to the 5th barracks, also makes Hazel’s legionnaire story make the most streamlined sense.

Retendura(?); the lowest part of camp, closest to the Porta Decumana, historically housed the other cohorts and the grain storage.

Latera Praetorrii; also called by the Praetorium, it held all the important buildings and things. The more hustle and bustle part of camp Jupiter.

Praetentura; closest to the Porta Praetoria, would’ve housed all of the strongest/important/well-respected legionnaires/cohorts. And the bathhouses :3

Forgot to mention it but there is another road called the Via Sagularis that would’ve been around the walls on the Intervallum (the space between the buildings and the ramparts) I didn’t draw it in because I blanked and forgot about it, when I post the colored version it’ll be there

I left out a couple buildings like the Auguratorium/Auguraculum (saw it referred to by both names. But it’s a place for the Augur to Augur stuff if I remember correctly) and other things. I wanted to get the big buildings down and I’d like to note this is a basic overview map, if I finally break out the big paper and decide on a scale I’ll position all those. But that’s for later Kleos.

I mentioned the 5th cohorts barracks changing and I’d like to say I think that is a procedure that could occur with Senate approval. Though it’s not a historically accurate/based concept.

Hehehehehe I’m really happy to have it done! Or really close to being done lol. I might draw it out on a bigger piece of paper to show off and put up on a wall, but for now I’m glad to just color this and be proud. I’ll make some posts explaining important buildings and their layouts (Principa, Barracks, etc) and then I’ll work on the… New Rome map. Hhhhhhh. But Powers thing probably won’t be until after Christmas. I’ll probably post later.

Silly Billy on the internet talks about how much they hate minimalism for 5 minutes; a post.

Know what? I was going to go and make the post about Camp Jupiter’s views on powers (which- my synopsis is; they don’t like them, or value them much and they are somewhat like ostracized as something not to be relied on- ties in with a bunch of stuff I’ll explain but yeah-)

But then I got a giant spike to shout to the rooftops about how much I hate minimalism.

Sure minimalism is whatever and whatever. But you know what it is? The rich man’s aesthetic, it’s ruined so much of interesting things simply for the measure of trying to look more expensive.

There was a rant I once went on about how I hate modern architecture. But this adds on to my hate of the Minimalism umbrella. It takes away any life that has been put into homes and sucks it dry. Like- look at some of these photos,

I’ll be honest I pulled these off of google, do I have background knowledge. No? Do I have the innate urge to sob and give up on humanity when I see them. Yes. The removal of these beautiful and graceful architectural styles is (also the removal of a lot of history and important parts of history because architecture plays a big role on that and blah, blah, blah) icky. I don’t like seeing this ultra-modern architecture, it makes me feel nervous when I see Seattle and these beautiful historic buildings and worry that someone with big pockets and a ego will go turn it into giant glass tower because of whatever stupid reason.

Please, minimalism makes me feel gross and I refuse to like it. Am I too upset at the moment to form a solid argument, yes. Do I want to come onto my tumblr where everyone probably agrees with me and argue to the brick wall about how much I hate minimalism, no? But am I feeling irrationally angry at any minimalistic, modern aesthetics, modern high art (you know the type of modern high art I mean, I’ll be honest I don’t like abstract pieces-)

I am a biased source because I personally am 6-feet-under in the opposite direction for maximalism, (it’s not hoarding, please look at maximalism beside minimalism and tell me what looks better. I know that’s personal opinion but this is my i am very upset about something that isn’t just a fictional book series moment) along with just older styles. I don’t like modern architecture.

Anyway on that note I love what they did for the big house in PJO tv show and it is amazing and every set makes me so happy because it directly makes me giggle and kick my feet and like hainensnfksjdbfjsjsnfjs. I love it and I want more people to build in the same vein as them because I garuntee they look 10x as better than the awful black and white box mansions.

Also I have a family friend who works in architecture and like making houses and I cry everytime they bring me to their next work site and it’s this beautiful building that is amazing. I remember being brought to an old run down 1910s-1940s era farmhouse and being really excited only to come back maybe a year later and finding a sickening black and white monochromatic farmhouse nightmare that I genuinely almost sobbed at.

But I love my family friend and the work she and her husband do and that to a degree it’s also client opinion but like- she makes a lot of the choices for these things and the next time I am brought out to their project sight I will be sitting there strongly encouraging to fight against the oppressive hand of minimalism. That was extreme, but I really like architecture, never talk about it- but genuinely one of my favorite things in this world is architecture and interior design

(If anyone cares my current favorite building is the La Sagrada Familia that is being constructed in Barcelona.)

Anyway that was a angry rant because I just got very upset for no reason over current western (I live in america and therefore don’t speak for the rest of the world, but in regards to the U.S.A which is Tartarus trust me) mainstream trends and culture deciding to lean into this minimalism clean era, which has been influenced by a myriad of things (see I can use myriad in a sentence- only know the word because of Heathers: The musical lol-)

But I’ll be posting that Camp Jupiter powers post… at some point when I write it. I hate minimalism and I pinky promise that I have more interests outside of Percy Jackson.

Gonna work on some schoolwork but I’m gonna get a post out about my thoughts on how Camp Jupiter views powers/Godly inherited abilities soon.

Also map will probably be drawn.. at some point :D

Octavian and Jason hc design

I haven’t talked about the Jason design as much (I think I offhandedly mentioned that he 100% was African American and Albino) and I’ve obviously talked about Octavian and I’ve shown off the drawings- but I’ve decided to switch around their designs just for my brain,

The left is Jason and the right is Octavian. I’ll say I’m not proud of how I drew them, like I said earlier I’m in a weird drawing stage and I just wanted to get them down. But this is roughly what I wanted.

I tried looking at physical photos of African people with albinism and tried to make Octavian a bit more rosy (though I wish I messed around with it a lot more) but these are generally messy sketches and I hope when I get around to actually thinking of their designs (these are literally just ‘hey guys basic features now let me get my colors down!)

Also I’d like to note that Jason’s shirt is split the middle down just so I could see him in either color. Though I have a concept for doing things when he’s in well-lit areas and whatever.

Also the two of them look pretty basic because I’m re-working their designs.

But whatever I thought the colors looked okay and I hope the next time I draw them it’ll be better able to portray their characters and my designs on how they look.